Pervasive myths, road tolling, and tour guides. 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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Strong Towns advocates in Wichita are changing that city’s conversation around how to build a better transportation system.
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This study conducted in the U.K. supports concepts about incrementalism that could, and should, be adopted in North American places.
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Tim Wright is the cofounder of a local Strong Towns group: ReForm Shreveport.
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What will it take to get back the ecosystems of tradespeople, laborers, lenders, and small-scale developers who made incremental development possible in the past?
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In everyday life, people usually say “I need a plan” if something has gone wrong. Plans should play a similar role in cities.
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Why is it that when a place is [pick one: walkable, bikeable, beautiful, lovable, inviting, human-scale], it so often gets coded as being “gentrified” or “upscale”?
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Planning must become a job that planners can actually do in a 40-hour work week. This will require a different approach to planning, altogether.
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California's Senate Bill 9 has sparked controversy, mainly among owners of single-family homes. But are we returning to historic forms of housing anyway, with or without state legislation?
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Measures of intelligence, heroes, and the cosmos. 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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Our drive continues through the area once called “the ugliest place in Maryland.” When you look around, though, you can find the building blocks for an urban transformation in these suburbs.
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This new Not Just Bikes video features an Ontario stroad that’s anything but wonderful.
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Let’s take a drive down Rockville Pike, a major thoroughfare near DC. What kinds of development patterns will we find as we pass through each ring of suburbia?
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What kind of zoning reform do we need in order to build strong towns?
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The housing crisis is hitting small, rural towns—often in even more stark and dire ways than in urban areas.
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This small town in Maine is hoping to breathe life back into its Main Street…but is looking for solutions in all the wrong places.
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Oregon’s Department of Transportation is making phony claims that widening highways reduces pollution. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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I’ve had to reconcile my foundational belief in markets with my experiences working with cities. This has been a painful process.
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Stolpersteine, human history, and crypto technologies. 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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Who is actually going to do the work of incremental development, and what will their motivations be?
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