Next month, the Portland Metro government is being asked to approve $36 million in additional funds for further planning of a massive freeway project. It should say no.
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Your small town had a 1 in 5,000 chance to receive a reality TV makeover. What can the other 4,999 learn?
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City Councilor and Strong Towns member Mason Thompson is committed to making Bothell, WA, a resilient place to live.
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Fact: New roads always produce new driving. Say hello to “induced demand.”
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The “Zillow Offers” program was supposed to sell thousands of homes to homeowners and landlords…so why is Zillow now having to offload them onto institutional investors, instead?
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We’re skeptical that the bill will address the real and current infrastructure needs in our cities today—but the good news is, you can. And you can get started right now.
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This architect demonstrates how there are so many places ready and waiting to become a part of the housing solution—if we would just allow them.
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Unless we start making better accounting choices today, we’ll be facing service cuts and tax increases every year going forward. …That is, until the day we can’t anymore.
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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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