Streets can be about many things, but unless they are building wealth for the community, they won’t survive. Period.
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This week on the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck Marohn talks with Nolan Gray about his new book, in which he shows why zoning reform is necessary for building stronger towns and cities.
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It’s high time that we start building streets that prioritize safety and community over throughput of traffic.
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This week on the Strong Towns Podcast, host Chuck Marohn gets to talk with Mike McGinn, executive director of America Walks.
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To protect our advocacy work against future harassment from the Minnesota licensing board, Strong Towns President Charles Marohn is retiring as a professional engineer.
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A recent Reason Foundation newsletter thinks that Strong Towns is against all highways. We’re not. We’re against all highway expansion—and you should be, too.
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We’ve seen a lot of fascinating takes on the Strong Towns approach, but this none quite like this musical take.
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This case shows why local governments need to do a better job accounting for maintenance costs.
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It’s time once again to sit down and answer some of the great questions we’ve gotten over at the Strong Towns Action Lab.
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Marketing campaigns to shame or shock don't change driver behavior. Changing the environment they drive in will.
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When a patient dies, doctors review if and how their own actions led to that patient’s death. Shouldn’t engineers be doing the same, when people die in car crashes?
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If we want to be the informed advocates our places need, then we need to observe them at human scale—and to do that, we need to walk.
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This motorcyclist was acting aggressive…but what in his environment signaled to him that aggressive driving was acceptable?
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An epidemic of roadway deaths aren’t caused by random rule breakers. The cause is the rule followers. It’s time to change the rules mandating speed and volume over safety and cost.
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In 2022, denying how highway expansions induce people to drive more should be considered professional malpractice.
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Let's talk about some core Strong Towns concepts: complexity, incrementalism, fragility, and more!
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If we want safe and productive streets, we have to focus on the deadly design of our public spaces and not be distracted by the scapegoating narrative of the “reckless driver.”
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It’s time we embraced co-housing as a viable solution for both affordable housing and social isolation.
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Recent documentation casts a disturbing new light on the Minnesota Board of Licensure’s attempts to discredit the Strong Towns movement.
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We’ve spent trillions fighting congestion so that it’s easy to drive everywhere. But we’re fighting a losing battle, and simultaneously losing our ability to walk anywhere.
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