The Kansas City Royals are considering building a new stadium downtown. But who should pay for it: the princes (team owners) or the paupers (taxpayers)?
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Software engineers don’t design user interface, so why do we let civil engineers design streets?
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ODOT has resorted to some truly cheap and deceptive marketing tactics to promote their new freeway-widening project.
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For significant populations of people in the U.S., the requirement to drive is a major barrier to participating in city life.
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Frogger, the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, and Chernobyl. 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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Schools across the U.S. are experiencing a bus driver shortage, but the root cause of this issue has less to do with the COVID pandemic than one might think.
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Sarah Davis is fresh out of planning school and interned for Strong Towns and Urban3 this summer.
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Making city budgets accessible to the average citizen is crucial for building stronger places. Here’s 4 examples of cities that made their budgets not only accessible, but even fun!
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CDOT drafts a rule that intends to address both greenhouse gas emissions and Colorado’s spreading development pattern. But can this kind of top-down solution work?
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Building to last is the only thing we can afford to do. The social and environmental costs of disposable buildings are far too high.
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How should we think about scalable impact, and how should it inform our approach when trying to grapple with big, pervasive problems?
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer is now available in audiobook format!
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By building disposable structures, we are leading ourselves toward a socially, economically, and environmentally ruinous future.
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The Confessions book has been out for about two weeks now. Here’s what the early reviews are saying.
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Fellow “recovering” engineer Kevin Shepherd offers his confessions: “Looking back now, I can say that many projects I designed actually hurt people and their communities.”
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We often get questions about our hiring process, so we’ve laid it all out here so that others can put it to use in building their own teams.
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Slime molds, tree rings, and perfectly soft butter. 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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Why is it that traffic engineers seem to value the flow of cars over human lives and safety? Are they just sociopaths?
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Here’s a roundup of five highway boondoggles that are threatening neighborhoods right now in the U.S. Think of it as a hall of shame.
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