Adam Greenfield and Miriam Schoenfield are doing some of the most challenging work an advocate can take on in their city: fighting a massive highway expansion project.
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Here’s a grounded look at why an elevated walkway didn’t do as much to save downtown Morristown, TN, as residents once hoped.
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We talk with Dr. Shima Hamidi of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, whose research cuts into the core assumptions of the civil engineering profession in regard to traffic design.
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Five families from Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Pittsburg move to the suburbs in search of the American dream…only to find decline.
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Minnesota legislators have introduced a bill that would eliminate minimum parking mandates statewide—and Strong Towns was there to cheer them on.
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For the past four years, Jessica Peacock has been fighting her city’s zoning laws in order to get her great-grandparents’ neighborhood grocery store reopened.
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Millennials are getting older, having children…and fleeing to the only places where they can afford housing: the exurbs.
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Jennifer Gaughran runs the Strong Towns Toastmasters group, where folks interested in cities and public speaking gather to refine their speaking skills, while talking about urban issues and Strong Towns concepts.
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Dustin LaFont is the executive director of Front Yard Bikes, a youth workforce development program providing safe spaces for youth in Baton Rogue, LA, to learn bike mechanics and other skills.
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Are there any instances where sprawl is actually good? Hear Strong Towns President Chuck Marohn discuss this with Joe Minicozzi, principal of Urban3.
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In this episode of Upzoned, host Abby Kinney is joined by Ryan Johnson, the builder and resident of the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the U.S.: Culdesac Tempe.
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This Texas-sized gas station might be emblematic of the auto-oriented infrastructure plaguing states like Texas and so many others—but even here, there is hope to be found, thanks to Strong Towns members.
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On this special Member Week episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution, we talk with Alisha Loch, a Strong Towns member who’s deeply committed to her community in Norwood, OH.
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Chuck Marohn reflects how, despite being sick, his spirits were bolstered this Member Week by the efforts of advocates he’s observed doing amazing work in their cities and towns.
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Different people are sensitive to different things around them, and this Member Week, we’re asking you to challenge yourself to become a little more sensitive to the things that are happening in your community.
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Scott Jones is the co-founder and executive director of We Love Long Beach, a nonprofit that encourages and equips residents to build connections with their neighbors through acts of generosity and hospitality.
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Aimee and Cody Frederick are selling coffee, cultivating real estate, leading a Local Conversations group, hosting a podcast, and serving on the zoning and planning commission in Richmond, TX.
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On this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, we talk with author Seth Kaplan about his new book, Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time.
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Shelby Wild is a mom, a lifelong gardener, and executive director of Route One Farmers Market in her hometown of Lompoc, California.
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On this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, host Chuck Marohn chats with Conor Semler, an associate planner with Kittelson and Associates who’s promoting some innovative approaches to transportation planning.
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