Creating change requires a lot of energy and momentum, but you don't have to generate it all by yourself. You can identifying existing trends and events to give your advocacy more power. One of these trends is parking season.
Read MoreDustin LaFont is the executive director of Front Yard Bikes, a youth workforce development program providing safe spaces for youth in Baton Rogue, LA, to learn bike mechanics and other skills.
Read MoreTax revenues are up and traffic incidents are down—is Government Street a model for future development across Baton Rouge, LA?
Read MoreOn this episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution, we chat with LeVette Fuller about her work in Shreveport, LA, and the new ideas she’s bringing to her city.
Read MoreFor some, the Reconnecting Communities Program symbolizes an auspicious reversal of values that have characterized the past 70 years of transportation planning. For others, it's business as usual.
Read MoreStrong Towns advocates in Shreveport, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette are coming together to work for safer streets.
Read MoreResidents of Allendale, LA, learned that controversial Interstate 49 inner-city connector will not be cutting through their neighborhood. Unfortunately, however, the victory has been bittersweet.
Read MoreAmy Stelly is advocating to remove a harmful highway in her New Orleans neighborhood.
Read MoreNick and Amanda Lanata are putting the Strong Towns approach into action in Zachary, Louisiana.
Read MoreA crucial part of making your city or town stronger lies in revitalizing your downtown. Here’s how one Local Conversation organizer is doing that work in her place.
Read MoreWhen a highway expansion threatened to destroy a historic Black neighborhood in New Orleans, this advocate spoke out against it. Here’s how she made herself heard.
Read MoreTim Wright is the cofounder of a local Strong Towns group: ReForm Shreveport.
Read MoreHere’s a roundup of five highway boondoggles that are threatening neighborhoods right now in the U.S. Think of it as a hall of shame.
Read MoreThese videos will help anyone who wants to see their city stop building new roads and start building stronger towns.
Read MoreHear how local leaders in Louisiana are fighting the I-49 Connector, an urban highway expansion project that is threatening the vibrant, predominantly black neighborhood of Allendale.
Read MoreLearn from local advocates who are fighting a damanging road project in Louisiana.
Read MoreThe new infrastructure bill will have big goals. But big new road projects won’t actually help us meet those goals.
Read MoreSmall investments in poor neighborhoods are the best way for a community to build wealth. They are also the best way to lift people out of poverty without displacing them from their neighborhood.
Read MoreHacer inversiones pequeñas en barrios pobres es el mejor modo de aumentar la riqueza. También, son el mejor modo de ayudar a la gente a salir de la pobreza sin desplazarse del barrio.
Read MoreShreveport, Louisiana has one of the country’s best downtowns. How did it become that way, why do so few people know about it, and what can the rest of us learn from its example?
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