Let’s #DoTheMath in Ramsey County, Minnesota.
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See if the Confessions Book Tour is coming to a location near you. (If not, there’s still time to get your community on the schedule!)
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The Oregon Department of Transportation has been authorized to issue revenue bonds to finance potentially billions of dollars of highway widening projects.
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Some misguided attempts to enhance the local park in Brainerd, MN, has actually made it a worse place to be.
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The Senate has agreed to discuss an infrastructure bill…but what does it matter when real reform isn't going to come from multitrillion-dollar infrastructure proposals?
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The rotting of the internet, America's "time tax," and truck-eating bridges. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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We asked a few people to read Confessions of a Recovering Engineer in advance and give us their thoughts. Well, we heard back and we’re too excited not to share!
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It’s no wonder that some people oppose new housing when the housing and infrastructure projects they see are disruptive construction work that drags on for years.
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Cities are the economic engines of our society, yet as a recent report shows, their fiscal stability can be seriously affected by local tax limitations.
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Jenifer Acosta is a small-scale developer doing transformative adaptive reuse projects in central Michigan.
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Our national transportation obsession has been about maximizing the amount that you can drive. We now need to focus on minimizing the amount you are forced to drive.
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If we continue toward a suburban development pattern, then should we move climate change efforts away from cities and to the suburbs, as well?
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Has your property tax bill skyrocketed this year? It’s worth taking a deeper look into how your county or city does their assessments...
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We must stop seeing poor neighborhoods as "bad" neighborhoods, and instead understand them as intrinsically goods ones, whose problems are addressable if we empowered the people who care about them.
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Rather than building new parks, it’s time we #DoTheMath on the ones we’ve already got.
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The tools for understanding our places shouldn’t be gatekept in the hands of people with urban planning degrees. That’s why we created this crash course in urban design.
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Hear how local leaders in Louisiana are fighting the I-49 Connector, an urban highway expansion project that is threatening the vibrant, predominantly black neighborhood of Allendale.
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If the federal government wants to fund transportation, skip the megaprojects. Start with a billion bollards.
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Murmurations, bollards, and kohlrabi. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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Here are three reasons even those who heavily depend on car access right now need not fear a transition to less auto-centric places, and might still welcome it.
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