It’s not difficult to have good urban design, the kind that respects neighbors and the neighborhoods they live in. It’s actually a lot less work than the processes we use to administer the suburban zoning codes we have today.
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People find it easy to blame a drunk driver for an accident, but what about a drunk pedestrian?
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Can built environments grow even stronger after experiencing some form of destruction?
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On today’s episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck Marohn dives into controversies surrounding the concept of the 15-minute city.
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Alex Alsup comes back to the Strong Towns Podcast to talk about property taxes and assessments in Detroit—and a useful tool that homeowners, assessors, and nonprofits can use in balancing this imbalanced system.
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We’ve become desensitized to the car crashes—and the factors that cause them—that kill people like Indianapolitan Frank Radaker every day on our streets. It’s time to change that.
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Jeff Speck joins Chuck Marohn on the Strong Towns Podcast to talk about the latest edition of his book, Walkable City, which features 100 new pages of information for anyone wanting to make their city stronger.
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Many people who want to change things for the better in their place want an example of another town or city that’s already got it all figured out—somewhere they can copy. Here’s why that won’t necessarily work.
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In this Strong Towns Podcast, listen to the latest update on our lawsuit agains the Minnesota board of engineering licensure and the oral arguments made in front of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
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Warren Buffet has broken his practice of “staying out of local politics" to criticize a streetcar project in his home city of Omaha, NE…but why does he have nothing to say on the city’s ridiculous and reckless highway projects?
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Commun1ty.one Principal and Strong Towns member Mike Hathorne joins the podcast today to talk about the concept of subsidiarity.
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The Reckless Driver™ narrative reaches a whole new level of absurdity, associating reckless driving with failure to vaccinate against COVID-19.
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This week on the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck Marohn chats with Epsilon Theory’s Ben Hunt about Bitcoin.
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What kind of financial challenges can our cities and towns expect to face in the new year?
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Let’s take a moment to reflect on the progress we made this year countering the Reckless Driver™ narrative that safety officials were pushing at the end of 2021.
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An annual tradition, here is Chuck Marohn’s list of his favorite books he read in 2022.
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This week on the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck Marohn chats with Sam Quinones, author and journalist, about his most recent book, The Least of Us.
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The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 12.0% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 7.7%.
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Part of having transparent local accounting is ensuring that the people living in a community know and understand the public costs associated with their homes and businesses. Right now, that isn’t the case in most places.
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Strong Towns member and former Jackson, MS, resident Amanda Lanata comes to the Strong Towns Podcast to discuss the role that racism played in the city’s recent water crisis.
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