This spring, hundreds of cities and towns moved swiftly to allow restaurants, bars and shops to open temporary outdoor seating areas. What have we learned?
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An interstellar love note, nuns keeping up spirits at polling places, and the story of a carpenter stepping in to provide shelter for Toronto’s homeless. These are a few stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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The challenges facing small businesses require solutions that respond to the real needs (and assets) of the community. Here’s one such solution.
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Here’s how doing the math can help get your city the best return on investment and steward your local resources well.
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A letter from the apartment complex is a reminder of how our cities prioritize cars over bikes.
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Has an infatuation with owner-occupation in Western countries contributed to the housing crisis and economic inequality?
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Let’s keep our ideals and our vision for a better America while we simultaneously continue to do what we can to make ours a strong town.
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Basically decent people can support or enable things you find self-evidently bad. It’s easy to caricature them—it’s much harder to truly do the work of seeking to understand.
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Reduced competition—in the form of monopolies and oligopolies—hurts us not only as consumers and workers but as citizens and community members. Here’s why.
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A get-out-the-vote message done right, the surge of interest in really big climate interventions, and how loneliness can lead to the worst forms of totalitarianism. These are a few stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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Gleaned from a 100,000 mile journey into the heart of America, here are 8 principles the leaders and cities of America’s most successful towns swear by.
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One vision is for a place where people can walk, bike, and spend time (and dollars at local businesses). The other is for a busy road expansion that will move a lot of traffic. Hear how two Strong Towns advocates are fighting the good fight in Erie, PA.
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Good fences—good edges of all kinds—make for good neighbors. They can also boost the economic vitality of our downtowns.
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U.S. commercial real estate was way overbuilt before the pandemic. What will happen now that brick-and-mortar retail is cratering?
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Eating together can subvert partisanship, restore trust, and build stronger cities.
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Young people shouldn’t have to choose between living in the place they grew up and pursuing a prosperous life.
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Local and state governments have stepped in to fill the gap for businesses when the federal response was either too slow, too small, or not tailored to the right needs.
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How do local leaders make the right decisions in a world based less on facts and fundamentals than on who can tell the best story? It starts with learning to see beyond the false narratives.
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When an attempt to solve a problem ends up making the problem worse, that’s The Cobra Effect. It’s also a pretty good description of the decisions that are slowly bankrupting many of our towns and cities.
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The uneasy truce between farmers and gravel producers, the case for quitting the news, and a new children’s book about urban planners. These are just a few of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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