Sidewalks in my hilly, non-grid-based town are inconsistent at best and nonexistent in many areas. How can I make my town more walk-friendly?
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Jason's work at Better Block offers a truly incremental, small-scale, Strong Towns angle to building better neighborhoods.
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A children's pamphlet created by the National Highway Users Conference in 1938 offers insight into our auto-oriented history.
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Read just one of these and we guarantee you'll come away with new ideas for how to make your town stronger.
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Historic preservation is often used to prevent something being replaced by something worse, but are we focusing on the symptom or the cause?
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Why should someone's ability to hyper-conveniently store their vehicle be more important than someone's ability to get to their destination?
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An apples-to-apples comparison of traditional and auto-oriented development approaches.
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Car-centric policy dominates our legal system and the way police conduct business. And it's not holding people truly responsible.
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Our nation has an infrastructure funding crisis.....or do we?
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Redeveloping suburban sites like this is a great way to make areas of the region more walkable, but new buildings alone cannot do it, especially when those new buildings are cut off from the larger community.
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Recent articles about the true cost and value of municipal infrastructure on the Strong Towns website have catalyzed a number of discussions in cities across the country.
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Federal housing programs that support multi-family housing have started to make it easier to get loans for projects that combine residential space with ground-floor retail.
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On Monday, we published a letter from Chuck Marohn to President Trump, outlining a plan for responsible, long-term investment in America's infrastructure. This Thursday, join Chuck for an open discussion about that letter.
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A big piece of the infrastructure puzzle is not about the level of government making the investment, it's about the scale of the investment. Here are 5 "small bets" to build better transportation systems in our towns.
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A new housing program in Milwaukee, WI tries to get foreclosed homes quickly rehabbed—and loses something in the process.
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Despite growing repair needs and the ever-more-apparent futility of addressing congestion through road expansion, the U.S. still spends vast sums of money to build new highways and widen existing ones.
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Picking my son up from school in a car would undoubtedly be quicker with less effort on my part. But the benefits of walking outnumber the challenges.
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A new ordinance completely removes developers’ legal obligation to provide off-street parking in Buffalo, NY.
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Three simple tactics could expand affordable housing options in Lexington, KY and other midsize cities like it.
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The adaptive reuse of historic buildings makes dollars and sense, and translates into tangible economic benefits.
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