Last week in Colorado, advocates for people-centered cities and incremental housing pulled off a massive win, sending a bill package full of land-use reforms to be signed into state law. Here’s how they did it.
Read More“Abolish parking mandates? But won’t street parking be overrun, if developers aren’t required to provide adequate parking?” If you’ve been asking this question, then this article is for you.
Read MoreThe parking reform bill Strong Towns has endorsed is necessary to get Minnesota cities unstuck.
Read MoreTo save our cities, we need to try new ideas, and that’s scary. But sometimes we must make scary decisions if we’re ever going to move into a stronger, more resilient future.
Read MoreCountless advocates who want to do something to improve their community run into the “brick wall” of railroad land rights. Here are some of your options.
Read MoreSpoiler: it doesn’t look like more police stations, more top-down programs, or more incarceration.
Read MoreThose who are most comfortable with the status quo often demand that we exhaustively study any new policy for possible harmful side effects before taking action. But what if we applied the same scrutiny to the harmful side effects of not changing things?
Read More