What has taken hundreds or thousands of years to create, human beings can destroy in a matter of weeks and months with a bulldozer and enough diesel fuel.
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Show this video to anyone who needs a crash course in what makes our streets dangerous and how to make them safer and more financially productive.
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A St. Louis street proves that when individuals are left alone to work hard, experiment and dream, real change can occur — no tax subsidies needed.
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Strong towns won't be built if residents see themselves as passive customers merely consuming city services.
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We should all be skeptical of the emptiness of thoughts and prayers in response to a preventable tragedy and demand real change. But we won't, because this is the city we've built.
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Can the co-working model be applied to housing?
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5 things a Moroccan medina taught me about safe streets.
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By providing the language to explain why fast-moving "stroads" are so treacherous, we hope to empower cities to make them safer.
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It starts with listening to what people really need.
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In order to get back to building the kinds of places we love the most, we have to embrace the messy, unpredictable and always-changing nature of life.
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I asked four different neighbors how they would redesign a dangerous intersection in my town. Here's what they said.
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This week's guest, Sarah Kobos, discusses how she started getting involved with city planning in her community of Tulsa, OK.
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A torrent of cheap and easy credit is saddling Americans with cars they can't afford.
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Overheated rhetoric and protest from all sides over neighborhood change are a reflection of the insecurity many of us feel over the future of places we love.
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This week, we shared several ideas for creating more economically productive, walk-friendly cities.
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Have you been inspired to help make streets safer in your town as a result of something you read on Strong Towns? We'd love to hear about it.
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You don't need a Complete Street in order to have a safe street.
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We've heard repeatedly for the last three decades that our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling. So why is our response to build more?
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Combining tax value per acre with data from Walk Score definitively shows that walkable places are more financially productive.
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The phrase "value capture" has been tossed around a lot lately. Here's what it does and doesn't mean.
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