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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America's pre-Depression development pattern relied on exploitation of workers, poor living conditions and exclusion of women and minorities. How is the Strong Towns approach, which advocates for traditional development patterns, different?
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The only way to successfully improve complex systems is incrementally. Investing tens of millions all at once every 25 to 30 years is a recipe for making a lot of big mistakes.
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The Strong Towns message has a big impact wherever it is heard, but how do we turn that into action?
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It should be hard for insolvent governments to take on more debt.
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There are rules you have when you are comfortable that make no sense when you are not.
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Many would have us believe that America is failing to invest in its infrastructure. If only it were that simple.
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Our cities are so financially fragile and desperate for growth that they will do anything to land America's most eligible corporate bachelor.
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It is very seductive to look at Houston's flooding as a simple engineering and planning problem.
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For extreme events, we can't measure risk, but we can measure fragility. Cities that want to protect themselves from extreme events need to become less fragile. They need to adopt a Strong Towns approach.
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Anyone suggesting that more wetlands or more pervious surfaces would have done anything to mitigate what has happened in Houston is lacking a proper sense of scale.
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Advancements in cognitive science are challenging how we think about urban design.
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Does Strong Towns have a right to point out the problems with our current development pattern if we don't have a clear solution?
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By talking to each other, by listening, and by interpreting the words and actions of others with a spirit of generosity, we can overcome the feeling of helplessness we have in these times.
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What's it like to move from a 5 acre semi-rural home to a downtown neighborhood?
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It's only a matter of time before California finds itself in another bust cycle, where the emergency of rising prices gives way to the catastrophe of falling prices—where the manic cycle ends and the depressive cycle begins.
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We can battle with stats and studies, but we'll be much more effective advocates when we get beyond logic and reason.
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This proposal is political theater at best, and, at worst, it's treating jobs as an object of religious veneration.
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Springfield admits it has a speeding problem. It's time for the elected officials to order that State Street be redesigned to make travel speeds safe.
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The line between optimism and reality can be a fine one to walk.
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