We’re proud to welcome the newest member of the Strong Towns team!
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When engineers say a street must accommodate a high volume of traffic, what they really mean is, "The design of this street must prioritize the convenience of commuters over all else."
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Glass bridges, looking up while locked down, and young authors. 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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Join Strong Towns staff on February 17 for a discussion and Q&A session about the movie Owned: A Tale of Two Americas.
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This week in High Value, a new project is proposed for Chippewa Lakes that sounds like a dream come true to Nancy Hjerne.
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Strong Towns member De’Nita Wright is part of a cooperative organizing effort in Louisville, KY.
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A community should determine what kind of community it wants to be, not unelected DOT engineers.
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Idahoan advocates had to get desperate to fund basic pedestrian safety features—all while the state DOT is budgeting $100 million to overhaul a single freeway interchange.
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Some large companies are pivoting their real-estate models toward building more compact, mixed-use centers for their corporate campuses. Is this good or bad for America’s suburbs?
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How do we build vibrant local economies that are good for the people who actually live in a neighborhood?
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It’s no secret that the conventional process for public engagement in urban planning is broken. So, what should we be doing, instead?
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As of November 15, Alaska is flush with federal infrastructure money. How should it be spent?
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Exhausted from helping her father adjust to life in assisted living, our Neighborhood Storyteller Karla Theilen seeks comfort in a local record store.
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It’s time once again to sit down and answer some of the great questions we’ve gotten over at the Strong Towns Action Lab.
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Nerd out on this YouTube channel as it shows us some of the intended (and unintended) consequences of car-oriented street design.
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This Rhode Island community came together to advocate for parking improvements in their neighborhood—and it worked.
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Narratives in physical form, Taylor Swift parodies, and Youth vs. ODOT. 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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This week in High Value, Rob Freehet runs into Chris Ekte while answering an unsettling summons from his boss.
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In this follow-up to last week’s piece about Galesburg, IL, we’ll look at what the town needs in order to recover and thrive.
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Gracen Johnson is a dedicated Strong Towns member who’s connecting with her neighbors and working on housing issues in Canada.
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