When the pandemic shut down our town, I realized how much I'd taken for granted the neighbors who showed up every day to make our community work.
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"Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford." If you’ve said this lately, or heard someone else say it, here are five possible reasons why.
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This Not Just Bikes video takes a look at airport business parks as an interesting (and infuriating) case study for places designed for cars instead of people
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When a patient dies, doctors review if and how their own actions led to that patient’s death. Shouldn’t engineers be doing the same, when people die in car crashes?
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North Virginia will make multi-billion dollar decisions this year on the region’s transportation future—decisions that are only going to induce more driving.
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If we want to be the informed advocates our places need, then we need to observe them at human scale—and to do that, we need to walk.
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Battleships, Caspian soup, and regrets. 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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What does and doesn’t work about the “great-granddaddy” of New Urbanism?
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Carlos Alfaro and Jacob Pritchett are bringing people of different political stripes together in Arizona.
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How do you make progress on helpful changes in your community when it’s politically divided? This free action guide will show you.
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We love organically grown, incrementally developed cities…but could we replicate their success if we started a new city from scratch?
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We keep looking for villains to blame for the housing affordability crisis—but are we pointing fingers at the wrong culprits?
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NIMBYs are responding to a set of very rational incentives. That presents a challenge for those of us who hope to alter the course of the Suburban Experiment.
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Across the country, the property tax system is causing economic hardship for homeowners—and it’s because the system itself is flawed.
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If you ever wanted to REALLY make a change in your town, instead of just starting a fight, consider this your manifesto.
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Shopping locally means getting to be among your people—and in this case, it’s pen people!
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Local leaders in Ohio and Kentucky are gearing up to make a multi-billion dollar mistake on this bridge equivalent of a highway-widening project.
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This walking tour in Sacramento, CA, reveals much about its past and present challenges with housing.
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This motorcyclist was acting aggressive…but what in his environment signaled to him that aggressive driving was acceptable?
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A Strong Towns playlist, bioluminescence, and Kmart. 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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