Stickplexes — dense residential structures on 2,500 square feet of land per unit or less — are an underutilized option for many towns and cities. They can often go where missing middle cannot.
Read MoreIn the inaugural episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution, we meet a business owner in Milwaukee who is providing a platform for other local entrepreneurs, while boosting the physical and mental wellbeing of his neighborhood.
Read MoreLarge swaths of cities were bulldozed to build urban freeways. But there’s another reason freeway-building devastated city neighborhoods — and it’s a force still at work today.
Read MoreUrbanists may debate the merits of Top-Down Beautiful urbanism vs. Top-Down Pragmatic urbanism. But there’s a third, better way — one that emanates from the bottom up.
Read MoreA planner in Gallatin, Tennessee does the math to find out how much infrastructure his city can support and who’s paying their share. What he finds could be the Growth Ponzi Scheme in action.
Read MoreThe feds don’t have serious solutions to the problem of pedestrian safety. It’s up to us to take action right where we are.
Read MoreThe North American development pattern disrupted a way of building cities that has thousands of years of accumulated wisdom behind it—and is still at work in dynamic ways around the world.
Read MoreThe Strong Towns podcast returns with a look at why we shouldn’t wait for top-down solutions to problems that can be addressed—at least in part—much closer to home.
Read MoreOne simple change can make your city more affordable for residents, more friendly to entrepreneurs, and more financially solvent. Here’s how to do it.
Read MoreThe future of New York's transit system will be decided by non-New Yorkers. It didn't have to be that way. It doesn’t have to be that way again.
Read MoreWhat heirloom seeds teach us about resilience, an illegal hoop-house in Chicago, and the unhelpful dichotomies between urban and suburban places. These are just a few of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
Read MoreThe fates of cities and their small businesses are tied to one another. They also have a lot to learn from each other. Here are 7 “crossover truths” to keep in mind as you navigate the days, months, and years ahead.
Read MoreMany conveniences—the ease of driving, food delivery, one-stop shopping—seem nice on the surface, but they often come at a high cost to our communities.
Read MoreOakland’s open streets program has become a national model. Not because they got everything right, but because they got started and keep getting better.
Read MoreOutdoor dining proved to be a lifeline for many restaurants and coffee shops during the warm summer months. What will restaurants do as the weather turns colder and wetter?
Read MoreThe paths to recovery for a small town and for an addict have much in common. And sometimes those paths can converge.
Read MoreHelp us welcome the two newest members of the Strong Towns staff!
Read MoreSo you've heard that "developers" wield a lot of power in your city, or that certain actions will or won’t benefit them? It matters which ones you’re talking about.
Read MoreConventional planning is based on what professionals think people want or need. Now imagine a city that improves according to the actual needs and desires of its residents. The first is a gamble, the second is an adaptation.
Read MoreTo have enduring prosperity, a community cannot squander its land; it must develop in ways that are financially productive.
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