Let's celebrate success.
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As a general rule, engineers show a conscious indifference to pedestrians and cyclists, misunderstanding their needs where they are not disregarded completely. This is the very definition of gross negligence.
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Just imagine an America where everyone has heard the Strong Towns message.
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An inside look at the growth of the Strong Towns movement over the last few years.
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Our theory -- what we've bet our future on -- is that, if we continue to reach more people, two important things will happen. First, in cities around the country there will be more room in the conversation for Strong Towns thinking and those that want to put a Strong Towns approach into action. Second, there will be more and more people who want to accelerate that change and they will support us financially.
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Dallas is not financially productive. There is too much area to service and maintain and not enough wealth to do it. There's too much stuff and not enough place.
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What is going on in the doughnut of despair surrounding downtown Detroit is not a policy choice. It is a consequence of policy choice. There is no bringing back the illusion of wealth or, to paraphrase Tomas Sedlacek, Detroit can not get back its unsustainability.
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So many of our cities are waiting to be re-inhabited, to be improved back to their former glory. Is America capable of producing a new round of pioneers?
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What the final ailment for Detroit was simply doesn't matter to me. The auto-centric style of development undermined the resiliency of the city, tearing down social, political and financial strength that had made Detroit one of the world's greatest cities. Once Detroit became a fragile city, it was only a matter of time.
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Can we help cities become antifragile by changing the way they receive aid from the state?
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My church, like most others, has not only accepted the environment Americans live in but has joined in the program to turn neighborhoods into parking lots.
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Engineers are great at building roads, but we should never ask them to build our streets.
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Different approaches to building produce very different financial results that can be easily measured and contrasted.
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A basic look at financial productivity applied to the Iron Range community of Grand Rapids.
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This week Strong Towns will be focusing -- here in our media stream as well as on the ground -- on Minnesota's Iron Range communities.
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In a solo podcast, Chuck talks about the articles he wrote on Smart Growth and sprawl (first and second) and why he doesn't use either term in describing himself or the Strong Towns movement.
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The silly saga of getting water to my local airport is a case study in the failure of orderly but dumb project development.
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Jane Jacobs was actually more about how to think than what to do.
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Many people associate Jacobs with a love of walkable neighborhoods, urban parks and historic buildings. What they fail to grasp is that these are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Jane Jacobs was a courageous intellectual wanderer who truly knew no limits.
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