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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Storage facilities have no place in a productive, walkable downtown. Here’s a case study showing why, and how to deal with the problem.
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A Studebaker factory once brought jobs to South Bend, IN, but what’s happened to the city (and its infrastructure) now that the factory has closed its doors?
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Let’s #DoTheMath in Ramsey County, Minnesota.
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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 recent tragedy in Surfside, Florida, is both a harbinger of things to come and emblematic of the nation’s larger problem with maintaining our built environment.
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Collier County is poised to spend over $200 million extending utilities to a whole new, previously rural, portion of the county. Let's #DoTheMath on this plan.
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We must stop building more infrastructure in our cities and switch instead to a model of intensive maintenance, combined with making better use of what has already been built.
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A model of what the future could look like for communities that depend on extractive industry, if they make the right investments.
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Our answer to this question is a pair of filters. If you can’t pass these filters, it’s a bad project.
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Calgary — like so many North American cities — is like an intergenerational dine-and-dash. Our children will get the bill.
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You don’t have to be a math wizard to figure out if your town or city has more infrastructure than it can afford. Just follow these 5 simple steps.
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Winnipeg says how much infrastructure it can afford is based on “personal preference.” But doing the math tells a different — and alarming — story.
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Cities aren’t exempt from the iron laws of accounting: if you’re spending more than you make, eventually you’ll be underwater.
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This Strong Towns member is helping her neighbors understand what’s going on in local government and get their voices heard.
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People are running the numbers in their cities and confronting head-on the absurd un-affordability of the Suburban Experiment.
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“I was just a guy, in love with a city, asking it to make better use of my tax dollars.”
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Here’s how doing the math can help get your city the best return on investment and steward your local resources well.
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When an attempt to solve a problem ends up making the problem worse, that’s The Cobra Effect. It’s also a pretty good description of the decisions that are slowly bankrupting many of our towns and cities.
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A planner in Gallatin, Tennessee does the math to find out how much infrastructure his city can support and who’s paying their share. What he finds could be the Growth Ponzi Scheme in action.
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