CGI rendering shows what the future of a street could look like if we put people first.
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As part of our 2023 Local-Motive Tour, Strong Towns will be hosting the session “How to Define, Refine and Distribute Your Story” on October 19 at noon CT.
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It’s time to abolish mandatory parking minimums! The Parking Reform Network is partnering with Climate Changemakers for an “Hour of Action.”
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Freeway fighters in California may have found a friend in Caltrans—if not for the fact that she was allegedly terminated for opposing two of the state’s forthcoming highway construction projects.
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This neighborhood organization creates safe street design and stops speeding, but they might have to wait five years for a permanent fix.
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What is it about kindness from strangers that is so powerful?
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It’s election season, and whom your community chooses for local office goes a long way to determining what path it takes in regards to development. Here are the questions you should be asking your candidates.
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Before attempting to apply any political label to this movement, it’s important we acknowledge the structural dysfunction within our current political language.
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Not only does supporting local farms help with your place’s local economy, but it also has the potential to create a flourishing and connected culture of people—as seen in these stories from Brattleboro, VT.
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State College, PA, voted to authorize eminent domain to demolish three downtown businesses for a parking garage. In response, a Strong Towns Local Conversation group mobilized opposition to the project.
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Many of us have great ideas for our neighborhoods, but feel unable to act on them—and that can be discouraging. But looking at your idea in a different way may change how you see it and whether you do anything with it.
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Don’t wage a war against drivers, but don’t wage a war for them, either.
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There was a major housing development scandal in Canada this summer…but it’s not the one you think.
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Better street design can help us chill out!
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These Strong Towns advocates identified a lack of bike parking at recurring local events and did something about it…by creating bike valets!
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In Baltimore, some of the city’s least wealthy individuals may be overpaying on their property taxes by nearly $300 a year, whereas some of the richest could be underpaying by $14,000 or more.
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On this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, host Chuck Marohn chats with Conor Semler, an associate planner with Kittelson and Associates who’s promoting some innovative approaches to transportation planning.
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Rochester, NY, made the decision to undo a past harmful highway project. Here are the challenges they faced—and the rewards they’ve seen since freeing up that valuable land for development.
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A city may not be able to change from a sales tax system to a different approach—it might be stuck with what the state allows—but that doesn’t make them helpless to overcome the challenges the sales tax presents.
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This block in Tulsa, AZ, got a makeover in this community-led placemaking event, showing that you don’t need a lot of money to transform an empty space into a community asset.
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