Strong Towns has been an international movement for change for over ten years. Now, it’s becoming a book—and this fall, we’re embarking on a continent-wide tour to promote it.
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If electric vehicles become the norm, our fuel tax-funded infrastructure might suffer. What should cities do?
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The property tax punishes modest improvements and rewards steady decline. People who take steps to add value to their property pay more taxes, while slumlords and speculators pay less. There are a lot of reasons for cities to switch to a tax on land value, and more states should allow cities to make that change.
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Slowing down drivers can save pedestrian lives. But is a little widget in your car the best way to do it?
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Modern Monetary Theory suggests that recessions can be avoided – along with lots of unnecessary pain – if policymakers will commit the resources to preempt them. Sounds like the same promise the Forest Service made fighting fires last century.
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You probably use Zillow to shop fantasy mansions in cities you could never afford. But would you sell them your house?
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Revisiting a 2017 conversation between Charles Marohn and Chris Arnade about the toll of economic and social disintegration in American communities.
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Amazon has pulled out of the deal with New York City. It’s unlikely subsidies are going away, so what can other cities learn so they don’t repeat mistakes?
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Modern Monetary Theory is the financial foundation of the Green New Deal. It’s an experiment our cities don’t want to undertake.
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Cities need to be exposed to low levels of stress and disorder in order to become more antifragile over time. Technocratic planning which seeks to make our world too predictable merely sets the stage for future crises.
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Why build a downtown transit system if you’re just going to close it at peak demand?
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If your city is struggling to pay the bills, could joining forces with the rich county next door be the answer?
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Cities are complex, organic, emergent things—and we impose top-down order on them at our own peril.
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How do we build Strong Towns in a culture of outrage?
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Incremental development doesn’t mean slow development. Here’s how big places that need housing fast can get there using the Strong Towns approach.
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Almost every suburban house has one. But is the home garage an American institution or a national disgrace?
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When it comes to infrastructure spending, politicians on both ends of the political spectrum get it wrong—but in different ways.
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The story of Jayme Closs should give us cause to hug our children a little tighter, but then to love them enough to send them out boldly into the world.
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New Jersey has been using a “cap and trade” model to let single family neighborhoods buy their way out of growth for decades. Should your city follow suit?
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When an intersection checks all the boxes on the traffic engineer’s checklist—efficient flow, reduced crash rate, check—but remains a completely hostile place for humans, and we point that out, what happens? Often, the engineers don’t even seem to hear what we’re saying.
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