This Friday at 12pm CT Spencer Gardner will host a slackchat to discuss zoning then and now. Join us!
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Springfield admits it has a speeding problem. It's time for the elected officials to order that State Street be redesigned to make travel speeds safe.
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With roads built far past the necessary capacity, one town gets creative in its use of street space.
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These comics illustrate what's wrong with crosswalks and why they rarely make streets safer.
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Chuck Marohn interviews Kate Herzog, one of the first members of Strong Towns and Marketing & Assistant Director of Downtown Bismarck in Bismarck, ND.
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High occupancy vehicle lanes are being sold as a positive addition to our highways, but they are just another way to induce demand for roads and driving.
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Why would a national organization focused on energy efficiency and lowering carbon emissions give its employees free parking?
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Our approach to building strong towns isn't driven by large influxes of federal money or top-down, cookie cutter government programs.
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Yes, it's possible to have a community meeting where resident voices are heard, while experts and professionals get their say as well. Here are several tips for how to do that.
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The American drive toward hyper-mobility has led to an over-arching cultural and social impotence to make the connection between loving our places and the possibility of flourishing local communities.
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Should protected bike lanes be installed on streets with high amounts of bike traffic or low?
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The real impetus for the invention of zoning regulations was a desire to protect and enshrine the single-family home as the most virtuous and sacrosanct urban form.
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If there's public perception that a new development is opposed, then opposition will grow—even if the initial outcry was only coming from a few loud, angry people.
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While roundabouts are a wise design choice, the money spent on this one (and countless others) is astronomical and unnecessary.
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We have designed every inch of our streets to compensates for the mistakes of drivers. But what about pedestrians?
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The wealth one sees in the countryside resides there, but it is not created there. These residences are not the producers of wealth but the consumers of it.
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This neighborhood has three different types of streets to meet different needs—but all of them provide ample room for the best indicator species of success: people.
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When I moved to a new city, the biggest change I experienced was a shift from commuting via car in a suburban metropolis to commuting on foot in a small downtown. That shift helped me see the world differently.
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If you don't get involved in the planning of your city, it will be planned for you. Much of it already has been.
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Which should come first: prioritizing the needs of residents or prioritizing amenities that will attract tourists? We'll be discussing this and more on Friday's live episode of Strong Talk.
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