A great credit rating is not a blessing for a young community if it is interpreted as a license to borrow without discipline.
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Accessible playgrounds, frostbitten flora, and paying homage to a former VP's passing. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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A malignant legacy lives on through a recent bill proposed in Oregon.
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A model of what the future could look like for communities that depend on extractive industry, if they make the right investments.
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De’Amon Harges uses deep listening and asset-based community development to strengthen neighborhoods and cities.
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A new Strong Towns book, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, is coming out in September. Do you want to be a stop on our book tour?
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Cities in Wyoming have become dependent on extractive industry. Here’s how and why they need to get out of this impossibly fragile situation.
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When it comes to housing, do aesthetics have to come at the cost of affordability?
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What the debate over a historic building—Wichita’s Century II—can teach us about local democracy and government.
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In the UK, planning systems have created a housing shortage. Here’s how a bottom-up approach could address the problem.
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The federal government pays the upfront costs for infrastructure, but the responsibility for its maintenance is yours. Forever.
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Charles Marohn’s new book is coming out September 8, 2021—and it’s all about transportation.
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Busting historical myths, a Strong Towns member featured in The Atlantic, and delightful cautionary tales. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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Do no harm: put your people and their needs at the heart of your approach. Here’s how.
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Lisa Leslie joined with her neighbors to help found an intentional community where families live near one another and share life together.
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The top-down approach puts systems ahead of people and politics ahead of place—which is not what we need if we want to actually fix our infrastructure.
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Large-scale investors are dominating the housing market, at the expense of actual people who want to become homeowners.
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Why do large-scale developers bother making cool mockups for their spaces, only to end up with a bland end product?
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The Plan pretends to dig us out of the infrastructure hole we've dug ourselves into. In reality, it's making the hole bigger.
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The story has been that we don’t spend enough on infrastructure. But what’s the whole truth?
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