Affordable housing shortages in California (and other states) are worsened by a go-big-or-go-home model of development: we throw up so many barriers in the face of incremental change that the only building projects that remain viable are huge, complicated ones with many possible points of failure.
Read MoreProfessional planners are trained to yearn for tighter urban design controls, as if cities without comprehensive, top-down planning would devolve into chaos and disorder. In reality, cities evolve according to mechanisms that allow us to gradually discover optimal urban design across time.
Read MoreA conversation with Chris Arnade and Tim Carney is delightful, insightful, and an important way to frame the upcoming year.
Read MoreMaking places strong isn’t all about big, “sexy”, top-down projects. And the fact that we call these things “sexy” might be a part of the problem.
Read MoreWe’re just days away from our special episode of Upzoned Live: SoCal edition. Help us pick our topic.
Read MoreWe recently shared the Strong America presentation at Talks at Google during a recent trip to Manhattan.
Read MoreWe’re in the waning hours of this year’s #BlackFridayParking campaign. Here are just a few highlights.
Read MoreWe’re swimming in a sea of parking. So much so that we often don’t realize that parking shapes our built environment more than any other factor. Here’s how to really see the glut of parking weakening our towns and cities…and then do something about it.
Read MoreWe paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Here are a few ways people around North America are taking paradise back.
Read MoreSure, it’s all well and good to talk about ending parking minimums. But what about doing it in ultra-car-dependent Los Angeles?
Read MoreHere's how to participate in our annual #BlackFridayParking event today.
Read MoreAs Strong Towns member Brandon Schielack researched how to support rural entrepreneurs, he discovered an opportunity that he’d later transform into a product for rural communities across North America: institutions, such as schools or nonprofit organization, still sold product produced outside the community for their local fundraisers.
Read MoreWe don’t pay a ton of attention to parking lots in our day-to-day lives—nobody makes postcards of scenic or historic ones—yet parking dominates and shapes the built environment around us more than any other factor. Here’s how to start seeing parking—and the damage it does when we build too much of it.
Read MoreThe Strong Towns staff answered your questions as part of a special edition of Ask Strong Towns. Watch the replay now.
Read MoreCommunities are stuck in a spiral of infrastructure spending. Who will stand up and say enough is enough?
Read MoreNo one person has done more to change the conversation about parking minimums and how they harm our cities than UCLA economist Donald Shoup. If you don’t know his work, now’s the time to get acquainted.
Read MoreThe Strong Towns approach to city building is fundamentally different than conventional practice. Here’s a short list to help you see the difference.
Read MoreOften, what prevents the incremental development movement from taking root in a community isn’t lack of will, knowhow, or resources. Here’s how a change to Miami’s parking minimum rules opened the door for small-scale development in The Magic City.
Read MoreThe movement to end harmful, wasteful minimum parking requirements is picking up steam in cities large and small across America. We’re doing our best to play a part in it.
Read MoreNew tools are making it easier to compare and share how we used to build places versus how we build them now.
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