Strong Towns advocates are pushing for safe and productive streets…including in Congress!
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For years now, TxDOT has considered removing Interstate 345 in downtown Dallas…only to conclude their study by coming up with a much worse plan.
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Today, city planning departments obsess over what happens inside buildings but pay scant attention to the quality of the space outside them.
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How many kids feel safe playing on your local street?
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A top-down approach to addressing accidents fails to make streets safer. A local approach could change that.
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This week, our Neighborhood Storyteller has set out to rejoin an old community of hers—one suspended in towers 8,000 feet above sea level.
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Strong Towns on Pinterest, off-grid living, and missing middle housing. 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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It can be intimidating for inexperienced cyclists to ride in the road with cars. If that’s you and you’d prefer to use the sidewalk, here’s how to do so safely and respectfully.
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Jennifer Stromsten and Alex Beck are leading economic development efforts in Brattleboro, VT.
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For the sake of our cities and the people who live in them, it’s time we fundamentally rethink how we regulate land in America. Read about it in this excerpt from Nolan Gray’s new book, Arbitrary Lines.
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There are thousands of stroad sections in the US. Transforming a good number of them is important to to the goal of improving quality of life and mobility in cities and towns.
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State preemption is a controversial issue in the planning world—but what’s the Strong Towns stance on it?
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Five local Strong Towns groups launched last week. Is one of them near you?
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The problems with "community input" are many and obvious. One misguided response is to favor more top-down policy making, simply overriding the objections of local "NIMBYs." But there is a third way.
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If you don’t own a home, and don’t have plans to own one anytime soon, you might think property taxes don’t concern you. But, what if we told you that they definitely do?
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No matter how many solar panels it has, your parking garage isn’t green, and especially if you don’t charge parking.
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In Detroit's 48205 zip code, from 2014 to 2020, the number of vacant homes hardly budged, despite $25M spent demolishing 1,628 vacant homes. When the pandemic hit, vacant homes plummeted. What happened?
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We’ve explored the outside of Fairfax County’s Eden Center before, but what does the inside of this surprisingly fine-grained strip mall look like?
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Don’t be fooled: Winnipeg’s newly proposed “rapid transit” project is actually a road-widening project in disguise. And it aims to borrow money so the City can destroy millions of dollars of its own tax base.
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Hyperspace, skateboarding, and focus groups. 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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