The best time to influence a development proposal so that it fits well into its urban context is early, not late, in the process.
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One of the most frustrating things about transportation policy is the obvious double standard when it comes to cars versus everything else.
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Here are six tried and tested, “no-brainer” zoning reforms any city or town in North America should consider adopting.
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Rent control gets held up as a generic answer to high housing costs, but people often aren’t clear about what problem, exactly, they believe rent control is intended to solve.
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We talk with author Jake Berman about the history of rail networks in America’s cities and why our transit systems are the way that they are in the current era.
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Cities need more transaction-free third spaces.
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Landlords may no longer be “land lords” in the historical sense, but they are still charged with a great number of responsibilities at a deeply local level—so, what does it mean to be a good steward of the land?
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The rise of trunk-or-treat is just another outcome of our streets becoming more dangerous, but it’s important we come together and save the tradition of trick-or-treating.
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Maryland legislators have called for an infrastructure review of every crash that causes the death of a pedestrian or cyclist on state highways—but one local advocate is checking the state’s work, and there’s some problems with it.
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If your city, like so many others, needs more housing and fast, then here’s a way some places are streamlining the process.
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Aimee and Cody Frederick are selling coffee, cultivating real estate, leading a Local Conversations group, hosting a podcast, and serving on the zoning and planning commission in Richmond, TX.
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In 2013, the capital of Estonia, Tallinn, declared transit (buses, trains, and trams) free for residents. So why is it that more Estonians are driving now than they were 10 years ago?
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Halloween is about more than just candy and costumes: it can also represent something more about a neighborhood’s sense of community.
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Each year on Parking Day, coveted curbside parking spaces in Denton, TX, are claimed by couches, games, potted plants, information tables, and conversations about the city’s future.
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An impressive interactive map put together by a citizen advocate in Denver tells a sad but familiar tale: Stroads are disproportionately deadly.
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The Housing Accelerator Fund is a grant program that will inject $4 billion into Canada’s cities and towns by 2026–2027. There are a lot of ways to use this money well…but also a lot of ways to use it poorly.
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When residents of Medicine Hat, AB, flagged a school crosswalk as dangerous, the city responded quickly with bollards and paint—showing that cities can (and should) implement street design changes before tragedy occurs.
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DOTs commonly justify highway expansion projects by claiming increased capacity will relieve traffic congestion and spur economic growth—but Toledo, OH, residents are busting these myths using ODOT’s own data.
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When it comes to saving the world, there’s a limit to what top-down policies can do.
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On this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, we talk with author Seth Kaplan about his new book, Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time.
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