Should cities invest in big projects in the hopes of increasing tourism, or should they invest in the people that have already taken a risk by moving back into their long-dormant downtowns?
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"In a sense, the infrastructure bank is the state's credit card."
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How I stopped being frustrated by my city and started working to improve it, with the help of my neighbors.
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Hurdles to revitalization based not on substance but control are the last thing America's cities and towns need.
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The Bike Peoria Co-op offers neighbors affordable access tools to fix their bikes and training in bike maintenance skills. It's 100% volunteer run and 100% financially supported through its own efforts.
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We are profoundly conflicted as a nation when it comes to housing: we want it to be affordable, but we also want its prices to rise fast enough to be valuable as a financial investment.
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Numbers don’t lie, but people sure use numbers to do it.
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Little free pantries are a hyper-local, small-scale way to help out neighbors who are hungry.
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This park has served its purpose and now it's time to move on to the next phase of its life: as a mixed-use development that will support local businesses and bring more people downtown—to stay.
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For one day in June, hundreds of artists, dozens of venues and tens of thousands of residents take part in a free, all-night art festival in the Twin Cities. Here's the story of Northern Spark.
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A unique program in Cook County, MN gives local organizations and businesses grants of up to just $1,000 to take on small projects that improve their town. And it's making a big impact.
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Art that invites interaction and play can help us build more social and active towns.
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A "museum without walls" draws visitors and residents to Asheville's downtown, providing an opportunity to learn about the city's history and culture, as well as encouraging patronage at local businesses.
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How can towns support artists in a way that benefits the community as a whole? Several unique art spaces and programs offer examples of this across the country.
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Muralist and community advocate, Pasqualina Azzarello, discusses her experience creating murals across the country and working with neighborhoods to use art for social change.
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We’ve become so used to decline in our cities. Buildings are demolished and lots sit open. We walk by and, at most, we call it a shame. We don’t stop to look.
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Public art invites us to ask questions and imagine new possibilities.
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Thomasville, GA took full advantage of a pivotal community moment to ask what its residents wanted and build on their ideas, strengthening its arts and local economy as a result.
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Richard Florida discusses his newest book, gentrification, economic segregation and the future of the suburbs in this interview on the Strong Towns Podcast.
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Strong Towns member Paul Fritz recently worked with a group of residents in his town of Sebastopol, CA to construct three temporary parklets, to resounding success.
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