Here are some of the latest additions to Strong Towns’s newest platform.
Read MoreSomething remarkable is happening this year in City Halls across America.
Read MoreIt goes by many names — the Jevons Paradox, Braess Paradox, Marchetti’s Constant or Downs’ Triple Convergence — but the science is clear: expanding freeway capacity makes traffic worse.
Read MoreThrough concerted and creative efforts to know their neighbors, listen to resident concerns and educate people on the city’s trajectory, these planning professionals are going against the grain and fighting for the city they love.
Read MoreThousands of Christchurch residents weighed in on how to move their quake-ravaged city forward. Leaders dumped that plan for a top-down rebuild plan created behind closed doors…with predictable results.
Read MoreFor example: Is it right to use Robert Moses means to undo the very harms created by Robert Moses?
Read MoreWhat can a fictitious small town in “flyover country” teach us about the concentration of power in our economy?
Read MoreThere’s still plenty of time to introduce the Strong Towns audience to your town or city…but time is running out.
Read MoreOur answer to this question is a pair of filters. If you can’t pass these filters, it’s a bad project.
Read MoreTwo congressmen—one Democrat, one Republican, both longtime Strong Towns readers—talk about federal infrastructure spending and Congress’s role in making towns and cities stronger and more financially resilient.
Read MoreA model train shop that helped bring an Indiana main street back to life, a (literally) heartwarming story out of storm-ravaged Texas, and China’s underground electric car innovators. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
Read MoreHalifax spent decades pursuing the fragile-making suburban experiment. How should it move forward from here?
Read MoreA passion for food access and community change led Kelly Rae Kirkpatrick to run for city council in her hometown of Rochester, MN.
Read MoreEngineers and transportation departments defer to it all the time, but “the Manual” isn’t actually making our streets safer.
Read MoreAre cities being preempted almost to the point of irrelevance?
Read MoreSon las experiencias de personas reales que deben guiar nuestros esfuerzos de planificación. Sus acciones son los datos que deberíamos recopilar, no sus preferencias declaradas.
Read MoreCalgary — like so many North American cities — is like an intergenerational dine-and-dash. Our children will get the bill.
Read MoreWhat role should federal infrastructure spending play in the economic recovery — and how can we make sure that spending addresses the real needs of people?
Read MoreYou’ve got questions and we’ve got answers about the world’s #1 bracket-based, strong towns competition.
Read MoreYou don’t have to be a math wizard to figure out if your town or city has more infrastructure than it can afford. Just follow these 5 simple steps.
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