We live in a culture that exalts the people who say, “I know.” But sometimes what our places need are people willing to say, “I don’t know,” and, “What do you think?” and, “Let’s figure that out together.”
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The belief that we’re going to radically transform our cities from the top down defies reality. Despite widespread anxiety about urban growth and change, the vast majority of places aren’t changing very much at all.
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Recently, the North Carolina Ad Hoc Appraisals Committee was challenged to face their own biases and fix their broken property tax assessment system. Here’s what happened.
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We tend to choose larger homes than we want our neighbors to choose. The result: suburban-style development that doesn't match what people actually want from their communities.
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Our Neighborhood Storyteller recently received a call about her aging father, who, with his driving privileges revoked, has had to resort to walking on unsafe roads…
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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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What can these 3-D crosswalks teach us about investing in our communities’ needs?
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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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Twitter stars, casinos, and 16th-century identity theft. These are just some of the stories from around the internet that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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This week in High Value, Hjerne prepares to do battle at the upcoming planning commission meeting.
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We love all the great videos people are making about Strong Towns-related topics! This one explains why high bicycling rates are safer for all road users.
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Get to know Jay Stange, safe streets advocate and Content Manager at Strong Towns.
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Apply now to join the Strong Towns team and help advance our mission!
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Too many of our streets favor the movement of cars over the safety of human lives—but this free action guide will show how you can protect people in your community.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation would have you think it cares about equity—but budgets are often more telling than rhetoric.
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When the pandemic shut down our town, I realized how much I'd taken for granted the neighbors who showed up every day to make our community work.
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"Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford." If you’ve said this lately, or heard someone else say it, here are five possible reasons why.
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This Not Just Bikes video takes a look at airport business parks as an interesting (and infuriating) case study for places designed for cars instead of people
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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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North Virginia will make multi-billion dollar decisions this year on the region’s transportation future—decisions that are only going to induce more driving.
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