The Promise of "House of Worship Districts"

In some places, houses of worship have formed interfaith coalitions, and do valuable work on social justice issues—but what if they also addressed issues of economics and place?

Top StoryRick Reinhard & Dr. Chris ElisaraDecember 2, 2021Faith Featured, faith communities, religion, churches, community

How to Solve Traffic Congestion: A Miracle in Louisville?

Kentucky and Indiana wasted a billion dollars on highway capacity that people don’t use or value.

Top StoryJoe CortrightDecember 1, 2021traffic congestion, traffic engineering, toll roads, freeways, freeway widening, highways, highway spending, kentucky, indiana

An Update on Our Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure

The most frequent request we’re getting these days is for a status update on our lawsuit with the Minnesota board of licensure. Here are the answers we can give you, for now.

Engineering Reform, Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnDecember 1, 2021engineering ethics, engineers, announcement

12 Ideas That Embody How Strong Towns Advocates Think

Here are some touchstone concepts that help underlie the Strong Towns view of how to achieve a world full of places capable of growing bottom-up prosperity

Herriges, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesDecember 1, 2021strong towns approach, complex systems, Chaotic but Smart, incrementalism, Overton Window, Jonathan Haidt, orderly but dumb, jane jacobs, nassim taleb, antifragility

Lessons from Magnolia’s “Village”

Surprise, surprise: Americans love dense, walkable places connected to a sense of history.

Top Story, OwensTiffany Owens ReedNovember 30, 2021urban design, tourism, master planned, texas

A Community Forced to Play the Infrastructure Squid Game

Residents of this Houston neighborhood thought they were winning the lottery with a government-sponsored infrastructure project. Instead, they endured a seven-month-long nightmare.

Top StoryJuan Antonio SortoNovember 30, 2021streets, neighborhood change, infrastructure maintenance, race, texas, hurricanes, infrastructure, neighborhoods

Strong Towns + Faith Communities: Announcing a New Series

What if religious congregations are the “sleeping giant” of the Strong Towns movement?

Top StoryJohn PattisonNovember 30, 2021faith communities, churches, announcement, religion

Which Wins Out: An Engineer's Discretion or a Book of Standards?

Chuck holds a Q&A session with Confessions of a Recovering Engineer readers.

Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 29, 2021transportation, engineers, engineering ethics, confessions of a recovering engineer

From the Office of Dodge, Wiggle, Hack, Shrug & DeCamp, LLC

Real-world examples of the administrative friction that holds back small-scale developers.

Top StoryJohnny SanphillippoNovember 29, 2021infill, Infill Development, local regulation, incremental development, small scale developers

Highlights from #BlackFridayParking 2021

Next time you see a half-full parking lot, especially on Black Friday, think of all the untapped possibilities trapped underneath that sea of asphalt.

#BlackFridayParking, Top StoryJohn PattisonNovember 26, 2021parking minimums, end parking mandates and subsidies, #blackfridayparking

Grab Your Camera. It's #BlackFridayParking Day!

Here’s how to participate in this annual event!

#BlackFridayParking, Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 26, 2021announcement, end parking mandates and subsidies, #blackfridayparking

The Infrastructure Bill, Racial Equity, and Local Government: How Should the Money Be Spent?

The $1 trillion infrastructure bill is being signed into law. But who gets to decide how the money will be spent, and will they make the right decisions for communities of color?

PodcastStrong TownsNovember 24, 2021podcast, highways, highway spending, infrastructure bill, infrastructure, infrastructure maintenance, infrastructure cost, federal government, federal funding, race, upzoned

An Ode to Donald Shoup

For #BlackFridayParking week, we’re paying homage to Donald Shoup, whose work has been hugely influential to Strong Towns.

Marohn, #BlackFridayParking, Top StoryCharles MarohnNovember 24, 2021Donald Shoup, end parking mandates and subsidies, #blackfridayparking

Where Parking Reform Ideas Go to Die...or Not?

You might be used to good ideas getting killed by committee. Here’s some inspiration to keep pushing, regardless.

#BlackFridayParking, Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnNovember 24, 2021parking minimums, success stories, minnesota, end parking mandates and subsidies, #blackfridayparking

It Ain't Easy Being Seen

Pedestrians don’t bear primary responsibility for road safety—but to an extent, neither do drivers. These photos illustrate why.

Top StoryAddison Del MastroNovember 23, 2021pedestrians, Street Design, design, walkability, safe and productive streets, safety

A New Way to Look at Minimum Parking Requirements

Strong Towns and the Parking Reform Network have joined forces to bring you a whole new way of viewing reforms to parking minimums across North America.

Top StoryTony Jordan and Jane WilberdingNovember 23, 2021parking minimums, Parking Reform Network, parking maximums, mapping, maps, resource, announcement, end parking mandates and subsidies

Where Will You Be on #BlackFridayParking Day?

Wherever you are this Friday, share a photo of the wasteful parking lots around you—and share it with us via #BlackFridayParking!

#BlackFridayParking, Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 22, 2021parking minimums, announcement, end parking mandates and subsidies, #blackfridayparking

The Urban Experiment

We all know about the Suburban Experiment here at Strong Towns—but are we now also starting to see the rise of a new paradigm?

Top StoryKevin KlinkenbergNovember 22, 2021suburban experiment, suburban development pattern, development pattern, urban design, fragility, design, urban planning

A New and Improved Map of Cities That Have Removed Parking Minimums

We’re relaunching our crowd-sourced map of cities in the U.S. and Canada that have ended or sharply curtailed their parking requirements. And it's more useful than ever.