Small businesses are crucial to local economic health. Thriving small businesses create thriving communities, in a virtuous cycle.
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If you're new to this space, welcome. Here are 5 steps to help get yourself acquainted with our message and our movement.
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The scale and value of what we’ve sacrificed in order to build parking lots and highways is staggering. Only by understanding that loss can we figure out how to build stronger towns.
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It is the experiences of real people that should guide our planning efforts. Their actions are the data we should be collecting, not their stated preferences.
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One of the best ways to deeply understand the place you live is to slow down—way down—the way you get around it.
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The smallest step might actually be the smartest one.
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"Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford." If you’ve said this lately, or heard someone else say it, here are five possible reasons why.
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When the housing market is depressed and you can’t get a return on your investment, there is little incentive to put any money into improvements. It’s a vicious cycle that several Akron nonprofits are trying to break.
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Food, waterfronts, festivals… plus some big mistakes. It’s all here in the classic Midwestern city of Milwaukee.
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Untapped, a six-week pop-up beer garden in the landmark Tennessee Brewery in downtown Memphis, might well have been a goodbye party for the long-neglected building. Instead, it caught a local developer’s interest and led to a second life for the historic structure.
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Affordable housing can take many shapes and show up in surprising places. These places aren’t subsidized or government-run, but they house millions of Americans.
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“I'm honestly not sure if I should support this trend or fight it.”
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To visit the Hapi Fresh Farmer’s Market in Akron, Ohio, is to see the beginning of a journey. Seeds have been planted to draw in more residents, more businesses, and to nurture a return to prosperity for the neighborhood.
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Let’s stop assuming the motives of individuals, especially when there are other, perfectly rational, universal explanations for why someone would do something we don’t agree with.
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To my fellow small town Iowans: stop voting for policies that help you feel good, and start voting for policies that help you live well.
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What’s the impact of a university campus on your city’s downtown? Akron, Ohio offers a valuable illustration.
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What would the opposite of the Strong Towns approach look like?
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One man’s quest to find the equation proving the value of gridded streets leads him down some interesting roads.
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An unlikely town has become a hub for cycling and mountain biking — and it’s paying serious dividends for the community.
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Unless we change the underlying rules that govern the design of our cities, we'll be fiddling with radio dials instead of zeroing in on exactly what we need.
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