Reopening a neighborhood store that was a fixture in its community for decades shouldn’t be this hard.
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Residents of small towns shouldn’t have to travel to a large urban downtown to get a taste of a walkable, people-centered environment.
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Reduced competition—in the form of monopolies and oligopolies—hurts us not only as consumers and workers but as citizens and community members. Here’s why.
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What technological disasters — like the Deepwater Horizon explosion — can tell us about why our economy seems to lurch from crisis to crisis.
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Everything about how we live our lives as Americans is about to change dramatically. The sooner we come to grips with that, the quicker we can get to work build Strong Towns.
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When Strong Towns founder Chuck Marohn’s foundational beliefs about the market came up against how towns and cities were actually being built, something had to give. The process was often painful, and it left him wondering: Is a truly “free” market even possible?
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There is no such thing as a truly free market; the market exists within a system of rules and incentives. And in America today, that system privileges stability and efficiency at the federal level, at the expense of making our cities and towns fragile.
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Here are the three core characteristics you need for a successful urban center, plus how to creatively make them happen on a shoestring budget.
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What is the future of work in a globalized economy?
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Federal financing rules started out as a way to help people. They’ve now become a mechanism that exploits. There is more to be gained by ending these programs than continuing them.
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The Governmental Accounting Standards Board now requires cities to disclose, as part of their financial reporting, the amount of money lost to tax subsidies. This is a significant development.
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The global climate is a complex system. Economic markets are a complex system. Why do we react so differently to these different forms of complexity and what can we learn from those reactions?
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I don't yearn for another bubble. I know the pain that will eventually come from that. What I want is a world that is real, one with a solid financial foundation that we can use to build strong cities, towns and neighborhoods.
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