Agriculture has largely escaped significant land-use scrutiny in the United States. It deserves more attention.
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The city of Boston just reduced its default speed limit. That's good news, but it's only a band-aid solution.
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Here are the three core characteristics you need for a successful urban center, plus how to creatively make them happen on a shoestring budget.
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A new community center could've fallen victim to the typical auto-oriented public project pitfalls. Instead, local designers created a walkable, bikeable neighborhood amenity that is spurring fresh development.
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Each one of these actions marks a dramatic departure from the norm for most places. Take even one of these steps and your town is on its way to becoming stronger.
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"If you are someone at all interested in Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Design, Urbanism, or just why in the hell your town is designed so horribly, and how little ole you might actually have something to say about it, then you want to be following Strong Towns."
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Corner stores offer convenience, familiarity, and a small business opportunity in a hyper-local setting. But they're a rare commodity.
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Maybe one-way to two-way street conversions aren't the silver bullet solution we make them out to be.
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How do we bridge the physical gap between regional mass transit options and city destinations? The answer may rest in the growing movement of bike share.
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A super-grid system could improve bussing in Dallas and other similarly-built cities.
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Residents in cities across the country are coming face to face with the reality that they can't have functioning roads without paying for them, and that bill comes due more often than they might like.
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Duncan's approach -- and the bipartisan approach of others who would shower money on our current system -- can only make our fragility problem worse. This thinking scares me.
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My urban walks in cities around the world have shown me the richness of places that embrace walking, and why encouraging walkable environments in cities is quite simply the right thing to do.
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You cannot build a place of enduring value that isn't homey, that isn't loved.
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Suburbia is a massive experiment, and millions of Americans are finding out that it doesn’t work.
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Langley Park’s auto-oriented development pattern imposes unneeded costs and burdens upon those who can least afford them.
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In a thinly veiled attempt to keep "those people" out of a local mall, this spring, the Valley West Mall in West Des Moines demanded that a bus stop that services the mall be removed from its property.
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Caution: This post contains graphic images of housing displacement. Viewer discretion is advised.
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It’s apparently acceptable for suburbs to actively discourage – and in this case, actually relocate – low-income renters. By pretending this sort of thing only happens in Brooklyn or San Francisco, we leave the low-income households who used to live in these now-demolished Marietta apartments vulnerable to very real displacement.
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The reconfiguration of a bus route to reach lower-income suburban areas is a symptom of the problem, not the real treatment.
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