Social justice concerns are an acceptable motive for collective action, but they don't free us from the requirement that our infrastructure investments make financial sense.
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Is it safe for me to like Strong Towns?
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We can make low risk, high returning investments in our cities while improving the quality of life for people, particularly those who are not benefiting from the current approach.
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Problems have solutions. Predicaments have outcomes. We're in a predicament.
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Devolution isn't so scary when the alternative is this crazy.
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Would a big pot of money for infrastructure make America stronger?
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Cities have to live with constraints that the federal government does not.
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Improving a city doesn't take a lot of money. It just takes courage.
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A federal infrastructure bill is going to make your city poorer in the long run. Here's how.
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Routine traffic stops are dangerous for all involved and do little to improve safety. It's time to end the practice.
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Here are the five best books I read in 2016.
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I encourage you all to stop using the word "sprawl." It doesn't accurately describe the problem, it prevents us from getting to real responses and it unnecessarily divides the national dialog in ways that are unhelpful.
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Scale our economy to those working at the ground level and we will see a true prosperity emerge from the fear and acrimony that is our national dialog.
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If the global economy is like a hot air balloon, we're only given the option to continually go higher -- despite the risk -- or cut all the air and crash. Those options aren't good enough.
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This fall, five articles explored important questions about the cost of housing and the need for "growth" and development in Portland, OR.
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As I was thinking about what to write today, I kept coming back to the same thing: how deeply grateful I am to all of you.
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Can we have cities that work with economics that don't?
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We've traded stability for growth, but now we find that we have neither.
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We don't have a checklist of things we are trying to accomplish that includes, as one aspiration, public investments that make financial sense. As we say in our core principles: Financial solvency is a prerequisite.
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Maine lacks the money it needs to do basic maintenance on its transportation system. Their institutional response to this emergency is to cling to an archaic code book while projecting a value system of improve, Improve, IMPROVE.
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