This non-profit advocacy group is pushing for a design for a local street that focuses on the comfort and safety of pedestrians and cyclists. Here’s how they’re addressing several commonly expressed bicycle-related concerns.
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When members of a local committee had questions about cyclists on a street in Santa Barbara, CA, this nonprofit set out to find the answers.
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During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, this West Philadelphia resident battled isolation by launching a bi-monthly, no-cost community bike ride that’s now connecting Black women in the city through cycling.
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This Local Conversation group is making strides in implementing Strong Towns ideas in their place—but without sacrificing what makes their place unique.
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Design doesn’t necessarily make a community, but, as this neighborhood in St. Paul, MN, shows, it does matter.
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A neighborhood newsletter can be a great way to build connections and create opportunities for people in your community to get together. Here’s how to craft your newsletter right.
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When this Texan city’s bus system fell into decline, local advocates took the next smallest (but highly effective) step toward making their public transit more hospitable: by installing homemade bus benches.
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Baltimore is reclaiming an urban landscape that has been made inhospitable by cars—using art!
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The Community Action Lab is the most comprehensive resource Strong Towns offers. Today, a member of the Action Team in Medicine Hat, AB, shares how the program changed the way she sees her city.
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Have you ever joined a Jane’s Walk? Named for renowned urban thinker Jane Jacobs, this annual festival of free, citizen-led walking conversations takes place around the world every May. Here’s one Walk from Winnipeg, MB.
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Housing affordability in places like Austin, TX, has reached an unacceptable zenith. This local teacher—who works two jobs just to afford her family’s rent—makes the case for zoning reform.
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People will walk in seemingly unwalkable places—not because they want to, but because they have to. Thankfully, this bridge in Peoria, IL, is becoming a little more walkable for each of these people who use it every day.
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For 45 years, this Denver organization has been seeding community, one garden at a time.
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How a local bike trail went from being a fun “extra” for its town to an important part of the community’s transportation system.
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Utilizing low-cost, short-term methods to calm traffic and catalyze long-term change has allowed locals in this community to expedite long-requested interventions to a dangerous corridor.
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Reopening a neighborhood store that was a fixture in its community for decades shouldn’t be this hard.
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And it begins with just showing up!
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In 2018, a group of concerned citizens met in a South Dakota coffee shop to talk about their city’s problems. Now, they’re working with a $100k budget for small-scale—but big-impact—projects in their community.
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Having a city filled with one type of tree may look pretty, but what happens when pests or pestilence start killing off that particular tree species en masse?
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After 2.5 years of success, officials in Peekskill, NY, are threatening to open this community gathering place back up to motorized traffic—but locals aren’t taking this threat lying down.
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