The answer isn’t about the definition of "infrastructure” at all. This is an issue of how Congress functions. Or doesn't.
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The suburban growth model might as well be called an extractive industry: it deals just as much of a beating to communities that embrace it.
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Cities should take responsibility for getting the factors right that make public spaces lovable and worthy of care.
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What could it look like to have a USDOT committed to reversing course from the mistakes of the freeway era?
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Budget shortfalls are pressuring transit agencies to do what they should’ve been doing all along: put to productive use the land they own around their stations.
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La mayoría de los vecindarios se enfrentan a una dura elección entre el goteo o la manguera de incendios: prácticamente ningún nuevo desarrollo o inversión o un cambio cataclísmico que deja un lugar irreconocible. Necesitamos salir de esta dicotomía destructiva.
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How do we minimize the chance that our best intentions will go awry and leave everybody worse off? Let’s set these 3 ground rules.
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Something remarkable is happening this year in City Halls across America.
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The grim truths hidden in the daily traffic reports.
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There are only a couple reforms Strong Towns recommends unequivocally for every town and city. Sacramento just passed both of them…unanimously…in one evening.
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Good urbanism can save bad architecture any day—if your goal is to create a place worth being and maintaining and belonging to.
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Making housing affordable is not the same thing as creating affordable housing.
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We won’t end the Suburban Experiment by denying that people enjoy living in the suburbs…or by telling them they shouldn’t enjoy it.
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An accidental photo essay courtesy of Street View provides us a look at the appallingly low standard for what we expect people who walk in suburbia to put up with.
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Un ensayo fotográfico accidental, cortesía de Street View, nos proporciona una mirada al nivel espantosamente bajo de lo que esperamos que aguanten las personas que caminan por los suburbios.
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Basically decent people can support or enable things you find self-evidently bad. It’s easy to caricature them—it’s much harder to truly do the work of seeking to understand.
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Extend the "open streets" and sidewalk dining revolution to include a fair shake for the smallest of small entrepreneurs.
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A lot of bad public engagement sets the impossible goal of identifying the community’s “vision” for a place by asking people about their preferences—usually with questions they’re ill-equipped to answer. There’s a better way.
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The real story of the Rust Belt is not simply one of deindustrialization or decline. To miss that is to also to miss the way forward to greater strength and resilience.
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This year, Strong Towns went deep — really deep — on how Kansas City typifies the tragic consequences of the suburban experiment. Here are 3 things we’ve seen as a result of this deep-dive into KC’s past, present and future.
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