Our cities are struggling financially. But culturally, we lack a common understanding to explain why this is, let alone decide what to do about it.
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When you become a member of Strong Towns, you are helping grow a movement that is changing the way we talk about our places, from Main Street to Wall Street, from the corner cafe to the White House.
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Don’t be intimidated by the haters. Keep doing what you can to build a strong town.
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Our national transportation obsession has been about maximizing the amount that you can drive. Today, we need to focus on minimizing the amount you are forced to drive.
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Here's an apples-to-apples comparison of traditional and auto-oriented development approaches. Guess which one is more financially productive.
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Cities that tethered their future to this experiment are going to struggle, while those that still have a pulse in their core neighborhoods will have a chance at renewed prosperity.
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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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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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