For Those Who Wish We’d Talk About Climate Change More

Progress on climate change can and will come if we use a bottom-up approach to changing our development pattern.

My Letter to the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure

Tomorrow, the Minnesota board of engineering licensure will hold a hearing to determine what final action, if any, they will take against the Strong Towns movement.

Engineering Reform, Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnJuly 11, 2022engineering ethics, engineers

Here’s Why We Respond in Force to One Amtrak Crash While Ignoring Thousands of Daily Car Crashes

A top-down approach to addressing accidents fails to make streets safer. A local approach could change that.

Majora Carter: Reclaiming Your Community

In this interview with author Majora Carter, she explains an empowering truth: that you don’t have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one.

Streets Are for Building Community Wealth. Here’s Why That’s So Important.

Streets can be about many things, but unless they are building wealth for the community, they won’t survive. Period.

Nolan Gray: Exposing the Arbitrariness of Zoning Codes

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.

Podcast, Marohn, Top StoryStrong TownsJune 13, 2022zoning, podcast, books

We're Advocating for Safe and Productive Streets

It’s high time that we start building streets that prioritize safety and community over throughput of traffic.

Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnJune 6, 2022streets, Street Design, design, safety, safe and productive streets, member week

Mike McGinn: Making America More Walkable

This week on the Strong Towns Podcast, host Chuck Marohn gets to talk with Mike McGinn, executive director of America Walks.

Podcast, Marohn, Top StoryStrong TownsMay 23, 2022walkability, podcast

I'm Retiring From the Engineering Profession

To protect our advocacy work against future harassment from the Minnesota licensing board, Strong Towns President Charles Marohn is retiring as a professional engineer.

Engineering Reform, Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnMay 23, 2022engineering ethics, engineers

When Libertarians Support Highway Expansions

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.

This Vancouver-Based Artist Is Writing Music…About Building Strong Towns!

We’ve seen a lot of fascinating takes on the Strong Towns approach, but this none quite like this musical take.

Podcast, Marohn, Top StoryStrong TownsMay 9, 2022strong towns approach, Economic Gardening, arts, localism, podcast

A Minnesota Judge Throws the Book at Immoral Tax Assessments

This case shows why local governments need to do a better job accounting for maintenance costs.

Chuck Marohn Answers Your Questions

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.

Podcast, Marohn, Top StoryStrong TownsMay 2, 2022Strong Towns Community, Action Lab, strong towns approach, podcast

Why Transportation Nudges Are Stupid

Marketing campaigns to shame or shock don't change driver behavior. Changing the environment they drive in will.

Ryan Crane: Malpractice and Accountability in Engineering—A Surgeon's Take

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?

Podcast, Marohn, Top StoryStrong TownsApril 25, 2022podcast, engineers, traffic engineering, safety, public safety, car crash, pedestrians

To Fully Observe, We Need to Walk

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.

Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnApril 25, 2022walkability, pedestrians, advocacy

The Way We Design Our Streets Invites Driver Aggression

This motorcyclist was acting aggressive…but what in his environment signaled to him that aggressive driving was acceptable?

Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnApril 18, 2022transportation, car crash, cars, roads, design, minnesota, stroad, safe and productive streets, safety

Reckless Road Design is Killing Us, Not Reckless Drivers

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.