Chuck Marohn reads an excerpt from the first chapter of Confessions of a Recovering Engineer.
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Demystifying vacancy in the housing market, KC transit’s carbon neutral future, and the artists making fine art of broken things. These are just some of the stories from around the internet that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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El Paso and TxDOT are using concepts aimed at making things better for people impacted by urban highway projects...to justify something that makes them worse.
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Conflating the one with the other keeps us from understanding the housing market in a coherent way. Here’s why.
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Cate Ryba is Chief Operating Officer at Urban3, as well as a former city councilor, dog park creator, neighborhood revitalizer and fun run founder.
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This one’s on you, engineering profession. Society is done tolerating this level of indifference, incompetence, and incoherence. What are you going to do?
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Seeing your own place through the eyes of an outsider can reveal some uncomfortable—but necessary—truths.
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There are two great reasons to order the new Strong Towns book before it comes out next week.
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The inequities in the tax assessment system are national. But the solutions will have to come from the bottom-up.
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What a million-person festival and an experiment in pop-up entrepreneurship teach us about the incoherence of parking policy.
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Next week is the release of the new Strong Towns book, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer. We want to celebrate with you.
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These videos will help anyone who wants to see their city stop building new roads and start building stronger towns.
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We get a lot of questions over at the Action Lab, and today we’re going to answer some of them!
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We need to #SlowTheCars on every street that's been the site of an auto-related fatality. The best way to do so? Through an iterative approach.
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Trained mediation, speaking truth to power, and how we spend our days. These are just some of the stories Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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The past proves that people tend to disregard the long-term costs of the plans they make, particularly if they reap the benefits and others pay the costs. We must become more sophisticated than this.
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It might seem counterintuitive that Amazon, the mall killer, would want to open its own department stores. But it’s worth understanding why the company sees this as a strategic move.
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Tiffany Owens is helping people open their eyes, put down their phones, and truly see their cities.
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We need to go back to the point where we were still building architecture that inspired, lifted the human spirit, and lasted millennia—and build upon those practices.
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And what this tells us about what the common buzzword really means.
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