Resource-focused cities of the past built wealth in a downtown core surrounded by neighborhoods. Here’s how to recreate that ecosystem in your place, today.
Read MoreIn order to make space for cars when they’re not in motion, we’ve driven the costs of development up. And it’s often tenants and consumers who end up paying for it.
Read MoreCollier County is poised to spend over $200 million extending utilities to a whole new, previously rural, portion of the county. Let's #DoTheMath on this plan.
Read MoreWe must stop building more infrastructure in our cities and switch instead to a model of intensive maintenance, combined with making better use of what has already been built.
Read MoreThe Minnesota board that regulates engineering licenses is abusing their power in order to stifle the free speech of Charles Marohn and retaliate against the Strong Towns movement for their advocacy on transportation, infrastructure, and engineering reform. Strong Towns has filed suit in federal court to stop the board’s actions.
Read MoreAgricultural communities, Roman soldiers, and healthcare facilities. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
Read MoreConventional economic development practice focuses on recruiting new businesses to relocate to the community. In reality, the most stable and prosperous businesses are those that are homegrown.
Read MoreCollier County's standards for new development on rural land repeatedly emphasize “innovative” growth...but when we look at their proposed mega-developments, it's really just business as usual.
Read MoreIn Birmingham, AL, a unique high school program trains teens in home renovation and building skills, while revitalizing their neighborhood in the process. Jeanyll Morris shares her experience helping lead the program.
Read MoreEntrepreneurship plays an important role in building prosperous local communities. Here are some steps for creating a more active ecosystem of entrepreneurs in your place.
Read MoreOrlando (and the surrounding state of Florida) has long been reliant on cars. But the city’s new director of transportation hopes to change that.
Read MoreLet’s go beyond the “buy local” mantra and start replacing things we send money out of the community for with viable local alternatives.
Read MoreIn this new series, we’re looking at Collier County as a case study for how insolvent growth persists in Florida. What's the history behind Collier’s development, and where is it headed?
Read MoreLet's talk about public facilities. What do they say about our cities and about the various layers of our society?
Read MoreAlthough many of us agree that walkability makes sense for countless reasons, few of us actually walk the cities where we live. Why? Because it sucks.
Read MoreThere is much we can learn from cities of the past—especially small, remote cities that grew up around the exploitation of natural resources.
Read MoreIndustry standards have made good people complicit in projects that are unsafe, unaffordable, and ineffective.
Read MoreResource-based communities rarely experience the prosperity their labor makes possible for others. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Read MoreIntergenerational living, gardens of gratitude, and gaslighting as official policy. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
Read MoreSocial capital isn’t as easy to build these days, but it can still be done, and should be done, for the sake of our communities.
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