Ogden and the Storage Wars

Storage facilities have no place in a productive, walkable downtown. Here’s a case study showing why, and how to deal with the problem.

#DotheMath, Davis, Urban Design, Top StorySarah DavisSeptember 8, 2021downtown, Utah, storage units, Urban3, Land Use, walkability, #DoTheMath

Today Is the Day!

Today is launch day!

Confessions Book, Top StoryStrong TownsSeptember 8, 2021Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, confessions book

Not Just Bikes: The Wrong Way to Set Speed Limits (New Video)

Not Just Bikes has put together another brilliant video, this time explaining why we cannot manage the speeds on our roads separately from the design of our roads.

#SlowtheCars, Roads and Streets, Transportation, Video, Top StoryStrong TownsSeptember 7, 2021Not Just Bikes, Street Design, speed, Speeding, Netherlands, traffic engineering

All Traffic Models Are Wrong

Traffic engineers use projections of future traffic to make recommendations and decisions on transportation investments… The problem is, those projections are all wrong.

#InfrastructureCrisis, #NoNewRoads, Confessions Book, Engineering Profession, Infrastructure, Marohn, Transportation, Top StoryCharles MarohnSeptember 7, 2021traffic projections, traffic engineering, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, confessions book, engineering profession, Infrastructure, confessions excerpt

We Need a New Conventional Wisdom About Streets

We're at a tipping point in how we design and think about our public streets. And things can tip the right way, once we confront the bankrupt ideology guiding our transportation system.

#SlowtheCars, Engineering Profession, Herriges, Confessions Book, Roads and Streets, Transportation, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesSeptember 7, 2021Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, confessions book, STROADS, planning profession, engineers, engineering profession, traffic engineering, #SlowTheCars

The Hidden Values Behind Our Unsafe Streets

Chuck Marohn reads an excerpt from the first chapter of Confessions of a Recovering Engineer.

Friday Faves - Your Weekly Strong Towns Roundup

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.

Friday Faves, Top StoryStrong TownsSeptember 3, 2021friday faves

A Highway Cap in El Paso: False Road to Equity?

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.

CNU, Infrastructure, Local Government, Transportation, Top StorySito NegronSeptember 3, 2021local government, El Paso, Texas, transportation, race, highways, CNU

Landlords Are Not Developers (and Vice Versa)

Conflating the one with the other keeps us from understanding the housing market in a coherent way. Here’s why.

Housing, Herriges, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesSeptember 2, 2021housing, real estate, developers, landlords

The Bottom-Up Revolution is... Connecting Neighbors and Harnessing the Power of Fun

Cate Ryba is Chief Operating Officer at Urban3, as well as a former city councilor, dog park creator, neighborhood revitalizer and fun run founder.

Podcast, The Bottom-Up Revolution, Success Story, Neighborhoods, Urban3, Local Government, Top StoryStrong TownsSeptember 2, 2021The Bottom-Up Revolution, Urban3, local government, city council, community, taking action

Just Another Pedestrian Killed

This one’s on you, engineering profession. Society is done tolerating this level of indifference, incompetence, and incoherence. What are you going to do?