Autonomous vehicles have the potential to revolutionize America’s transportation system, not just through their safety and convenience, but also because of their lower cost.
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After some travel and contemplation, Chuck Marohn offers some thoughts on the presidential election, Strong Towns and the future of America.
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According to this study: Hardly anything.
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This video of Mississauga, ON shows us that density will not save the suburbs.
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An engineering firm wakes up to the reality of the unsustainable suburban development pattern.
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Throughout the election, we've chosen to focus our attention toward the issue of infrastructure spending. Now it's time to consider what our new president will do about it.
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Rachel Quednau interviews Gracen Johnson about making the hard decision to move to a new town, plus her work with the Incremental Development Alliance and her philosophy that "love will save this place."
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Please take a few minutes to submit information about the parking minimums in your city so that we can share an updated map during the week of Black Friday Parking.
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You're probably planning to be glued to the TV or computer today, closely tracking the outcome of the presidential race. But there's so much more that's worth paying attention to than simply the national races.
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If so many people live in suburbs, it must be because that’s what they prefer, right? Actually the evidence is to the contrary.
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What would our transportation system look like if all users—cyclists, car drivers, pedestrians—paid their fair share?
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In this interview, Chuck Marohn and Russ Roberts, host of the EconTalk podcast, discuss the political appeal of infrastructure spending vs. the economics perspective. They also talk about how to ensure a good return on investment and how to focus on smaller-scale projects.
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I think this community-based approach could go much farther than any president to develop strong, inclusive local economies that would, in turn, help us face other seemingly intractable 21st century issues like climate, energy, diversity and government finance.
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These 5 features make my neighborhood an ideal place to trick or treat. How does your neighborhood stack up?
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The Cato Institute recently published an article claiming that cash-strapped millennials in Seattle should look instead to Houston for affordable homes. There's a lot wrong with that argument.
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Our job as Strong Towns advocates is to share our message with our friends, neighbors and others in our communities, to keep bringing the conversation back to the persistent fact that our current approach is not working financially. We’re broke and so we must start thinking differently.
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"'Infrastructure' is now a word bandied about by even the most casual of news watchers. We have all heard how old it is, how much it costs and how often it is now breaking, not just locally, but across the nation. Enter Charles Marohn."
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A local engineer told me striping was supposed to make the street safer, but it feels like it has had the opposite effect. Is there any evidence to suggest that striping a center line on residential streets actually improves safety or slows drivers down?
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We can either use an injection of federal infrastructure money to kick the can down the road so it becomes a future leader's problem, or we can use it to permanently address the issues our communities face.
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Watch the President of Strong Towns speak about the pitfalls of the suburban development pattern and the relationship between transportation and household affordability.
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