Strong Towns Program Director Rachel Quednau shares her favorite content from this past year.
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Dozens of people have been killed by vehicles on State Street in Springfield, Massachusetts over the last seven years. The public is clamoring for change, but city staff aren’t getting the message. Here’s what’s being lost in translation.
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Across the U.S. and Canada, the Strong Towns movement is growing. We’ve added two new staff people to help.
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Any attempt to design cities that are for people and not cars is all for naught if there are no means to finance it.
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This new Strong Towns e-book explores what it would take to revive small-scale development as a force significant enough to shape and grow our cities.
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This house came with a unique instruction: “Change the mailbox message every week, or people will get upset.”
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The pets of this neighborhood brought their humans closer together.
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These temporary artwork instillations (that anyone can create) are a great way to connect with your neighbors, and help them connect with your community, in turn.
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Why bother asking the public what they want if their opinions are going to be dismissed, anyway?
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Why it’s important that we connect with members of our community sooner rather than later.
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Cycling professors, video game towns, and worker shortages. These are just some of the stories from around the internet that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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We respond to a question posted for us on Reddit about a stroad that seems unfixable—and maybe that’s because it is.
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This organization is suing their local government over an insolvent, master-planned development in Collier County, Florida.
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Farmer and author, Beth Hoffman, does the math on U.S. agriculture in her new book.
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In some places, houses of worship have formed interfaith coalitions, and do valuable work on social justice issues—but what if they also addressed issues of economics and place?
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Kentucky and Indiana wasted a billion dollars on highway capacity that people don’t use or value.
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The most frequent request we’re getting these days is for a status update on our lawsuit with the Minnesota board of licensure. Here are the answers we can give you, for now.
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Here are some touchstone concepts that help underlie the Strong Towns view of how to achieve a world full of places capable of growing bottom-up prosperity
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Surprise, surprise: Americans love dense, walkable places connected to a sense of history.
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Residents of this Houston neighborhood thought they were winning the lottery with a government-sponsored infrastructure project. Instead, they endured a seven-month-long nightmare.
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