Even before the pandemic, towns and cities across North America were drifting toward bankruptcy...and many of them didn’t even know it. Now’s the time to take control of your community’s financial future.
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Financially, public pension funds are finished. There are two important reasons we need to admit this now…and find a way forward together.
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Everything about how we live our lives as Americans is about to change dramatically. The sooner we come to grips with that, the quicker we can get to work build Strong Towns.
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The more efficient we make our systems, the more fragile they become. To make our cities stable and prosperous, our development pattern needs to become less efficient.
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It’s not clear where this transition is taking us, but you don’t have to look far to see ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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It’s important to demystify the development process. Not just for people who have a vested interest in what gets built in their neighborhood, but for people involved in one aspect of the building process — city officials, finance, architects, planners, etc. — who may not fully appreciate what’s happening elsewhere.
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It’s always been important that we build towns and cities that are strong for people of all ages and abilities. Huge demographic shifts make it urgent too.
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No matter the domain or field—city government, planning and engineering, and even our own families and communities—we all leave a legacy. The question is: will it be the legacy we intended to leave?
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A retrenchment in the stock market will be devastating to our cities. It’s also inevitable and, in some ways, necessary.
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An interview on the Nonprofit Growth Show gets deep into the Strong Towns strategy for taking on the development pattern of North America.
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How do you solve a problem like the housing crisis? And who’s to blame? The answers probably aren’t as simple as we’d like them to be.
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If you want to be a Strong Town, your community must redirect its energy to things that will make it financially better off and more prosperous.
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Studies show older people spend a huge part of each day alone. Reducing loneliness among our oldest neighbors benefits us all.
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What do walkable neighborhoods and church attendance have to do with the surprising ascendance of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election? More than you might think...and maybe different than you might think, too.
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The Strong Towns approach to public investment is part of an overall strategy of shifting our local energy from chasing the next project to building real wealth.
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There is no better way to discredit a campaign to reduce auto fatalities than to compare the risk of death by auto crash to the risk of death by viral pandemic.
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If your community has a huge backlog of unfunded infrastructure maintenance — and it’s the rare one that doesn’t — there are some basic and obvious steps that need to be taken.
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If the NHTSA wants to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce vehicle-related crashes, they should stop blaming people who are walking when they are killed and injured by drivers.
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For a traffic engineer, to be conservative in your design is to spend extra money building capacity you don’t really need. The spiraling costs of this approach are enormous.
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Eight years ago redevelopment agencies were abolished in California. Are they making a comeback...and, if so, is that a good thing? In the final podcast of 2019, Chuck Marohn is joined by Steven Greenhut and Mike Madrid for a roundtable discussion on the resurgence of these controversial agencies.
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