Today we kick off our member drive, your opportunity to support this bottom-up revolution and bring needed change to cities across North America.
Read MoreKansas City has more freeway lane miles per capita than any other city in the country…and possibly the world. Can a city so devoted to edge development for the last 60 years pursue a more fiscally responsible approach to development? There are reasons to be hopeful.
Read MoreWe want to dismiss Detroit as an anomaly. But in fact Detroit is a glimpse into the future for nearly every American city and town. Increasingly fragile from auto-centric development, for Detroit—and for the rest of us—it was only a matter of time.
Read MoreWe need each other. Whether we live in a small town, dense city, or sprawling suburb, we can’t do life alone…or at least not well. How do we resist fragmentation and find the wholeness and community we need to really thrive?
Read MoreAtlanta is one of the fastest gentrifying cities in the country. King Williams, an Atlanta-based writer and documentary filmmaker, describes what makes that city’s experience with gentrification unique, why gentrification is avoidable, and why Atlanta’s middle-class is now facing displacement too.
Read MoreWe have to stop looking at the stagnation and decline of our blocks and neighborhoods as a normal part of the development process.
Read MoreNew York’s newest BRT line is being called the “Miracle on 14th Street.” But why is it so miraculous?
Read MoreOne of our heroes here at Strong Towns has helped pioneer a simple but powerful process for building neighborhood wealth and strengthening community ties. This approach is absolutely transforming his city of Oswego, New York. We think you should copy it.
Read MoreThe most brilliant innovations in building cities are already embodied in the traditional development pattern, a foolproof approach to creating resilient and productive places that was developed the hard way.
Read MoreThe advocacy group Transportation for America makes a bold move on transportation funding. We applaud them for it.
Read MoreA trip to Italy reveals the physical, social, and even cultural benefits of walking. But coming home to the auto-oriented U.S. reveals something too: just how dangerous, difficult, and unpleasant we’ve made things for pedestrians.
Read MoreA first look at the Strong America Tour presentation, this one from our recent visit to Seattle.
Read MoreConventional approaches to public investment tend to be expensive, dull, difficult (or impossible) to undo, and often divorced from the lived struggles of real people. There’s a better way.
Read MoreIs growth inherently bad? Are declining neighborhoods really a good investment? And, most of all, can we actually make the changes we need to make our communities stronger? Chuck Marohn answers these and other questions about his new book Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity. What questions do you have?
Read MoreEndless growth is a luxury we literally can’t afford. Here’s why the path to true prosperity requires local communities to opt out of an economy of greed and bring decision-making back home.
Read MoreAncient cities reveal the extent to which humans have co-evolved with their complex human habitats. As we were making our cities, they were making us. And yet we’ve discarded much of this hard-won wisdom of the past.
Read MoreThe ideas behind Strong Towns began in my small town of Brainerd. A tour starting in Memphis is designed to bring them home.
Read MoreStrong Towns believes towns need to be obsessive about their revenues. But does that really mean building more revenue-generating prison centers?
Read MoreThe best financial investments our cities can make are those that humbly respond to how people struggle.
Read MoreThink tanks and government agencies aren’t solving our housing crisis nearly as fast as our cities need. Should we let the public have a shot—and give the person with the winning idea a big prize if they can make a dent?
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