Scale our economy to those working at the ground level and we will see a true prosperity emerge.
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Our job as Strong Towns advocates is to share our message with our friends, neighbors and others in our communities, to keep bringing the conversation back to the persistent fact that our current approach is not working financially. We’re broke and so we must start thinking differently.
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A fetish with density is spiking the rising tide of housing demand in cities like Portland. To make housing affordable, we have to deal with the cause of the spike.
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When the issue of housing affordability comes up again and again, it is always tied to the agreed upon narrative that Portland is growing and will continue to grow, world without end. I don't buy that.
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The mechanism creating inflated housing prices in cities like Portland is actually relatively simple.
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Join us for Bike Week at Strong Towns, as we examine the highest returning investment a city can make: making it easier for people to bike.
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Questioning 4 common arguments about why housing is unaffordable in Portland.
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A strong town is built with a thousand competing ideas instead of one master vision.
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If it "doesn't make sense" for the people that live along a dead end road to pick up the cost of maintaining it, what does make sense?
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The Housing Development Tool Kit released this week by the White House has some great ideas every city should implement. It also has some things that should stay in the ivory tower.
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The White House takes aim at some of the our cities' worst development practices.
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Large surface parking lots do not make good neighbors.
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When you hear a politician or an economist touting the payback in infrastructure spending, they are either ignorant or are feeding you cheap propaganda. Either way, we need to demand better.
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Join us on Tuesday, September 20 to chat about infrastructure spending in America.
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It is very likely that, within the next 12 to 24 months, your community is going to get some money for infrastructure. What are you going to do with it?
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Most teachers I know are amazing people, but the system they're working under doesn't always produce the best teachers to meet the needs of every kid. Here's a different approach.
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What if we shifted all transportation funding into the classroom? What if we ended the mandate for schools to provide transportation?
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Safe Routes to School is a very popular federal program designed to make is easier for students to walk and bike to school. What if we instead chose to build Schools on Safe Routes?
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As a society, we are zealous when it comes to the safety of children. And rightfully so. Still, for some reason we find it perfectly acceptable to routinely include them in the most dangerous activity of American life: riding in a car.
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We will not have strong cities, towns and neighborhoods without our school systems being part of the effort.
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