This YouTube channel introduces us to the hidden gems in some otherwise #PedestrianUnfriendly cities.
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When her marriage of 17 years ended, this now-single mother found herself without a home in an expensive city. The solution she found? Co-housing with two other single parents.
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What are some of the practical ways that faith communities can contribute to healthy economic ecosystems?
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Even people who know the historic benefits of duplexes (and the like) can be wary of re-legalizing them. We need to understand why if we want to effectively promote missing middle housing.
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If you love your community—both for what it is and for what it aspires to be—you should nominate it for this year’s Strongest Town Contest!
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San Antonio residents were working on a downtown road diet and neighborhood redevelopment…until TxDOT decided to completely ignore the will of 78% of local voters.
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The way our highways are built turn whole regions into featureless throughways. Slow down, though, and you’ll find value where you might never have noticed it before.
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This week we’ve got a special treat: both the video and audio from a conversation between Chuck Marohn and renowned urban planner and walkability expert Jeff Speck.
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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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