L.A.’s transit past, the importance of good design (even in a housing crisis), and why auto-centric development is especially hard on seniors. These stories and more in our weekly Top 5.
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The most exciting advances in public transit in North America are coming from some unexpected places, where they’re figuring out how to achieve more with less. Indianapolis might be the newest to join that club.
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More research from the Upjohn Institute, following an attention-grabbing study last year, helps us understand the cause-and-effect chains that result when a new apartment building opens in a low-income area.
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A father in Italy created a local Facebook group to help his son find playmates in their neighborhood. It sparked a national movement to create more “Social Streets.”
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Investing in a supposedly “smart” future won’t overcome the failure to get the “dumb” stuff right. The former mayor of Seattle explains.
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New studies confirm people are willing to pay more to live in walkable neighborhoods. So why don’t we build more of them?
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Coffee shops have a lot to teach us about our neighborhoods and the people we share them with. Here are three of them.
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If you want to see more homes built in your city, good urban design isn’t your enemy. And neither are those who insist on it.
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See examples of “spooky wisdom” in communities across North America, submitted by readers and members in the Strong Towns Book Club.
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A street cart, food truck, or pop-up stall is the lowest possible bar to entry for an entrepreneur with a dream. As this kind of retail blossoms in our cities, let’s make sure we don’t kill the golden goose by imposing too much order on a phenomenon that thrives on a little bit of chaos.
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In honor of one of America's most significant leaders, we'll be taking the day off from content and we'll resume our usual schedule tomorrow.
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Answers to questions submitted by applicants and the rebroadcast of our three briefings on the open positions.
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Lessons about Strong Towns from HBO’s “Deadwood.” What your city should do about its infrastructure backlog. And why “jaywalking” shouldn’t even be a thing. These stories and more in our weekly Top 5.
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For many, Los Angeles embodies car-culture—and the suburban-style development, freeways, traffic jams, and pollution that go with it. But it didn’t have to be that way. Turns out, LA was never designed to be a car city.
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Our world is isolating and disempowering for Americans who don’t drive. As the number of senior citizens reaches an all-time high, this desperately needs to change.
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Conventional approaches to property taxation can be summed up as follows: “No good deed goes unpunished.” The Land Value Tax is the surprisingly simple alternative—and it can help spur the kind of growth we actually need.
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Where did we spend our money building transit in the U.S. in the last 10 years? And what did we get for it?
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We’ve long accepted a base level of carnage on our streets. But we should stop describing these as random “accidents.” They are the inevitable outcome of our chosen approach to building cities.
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What if the “beautiful dream” of a Main Street urbanism isn’t available? What can be done to adapt that dream to auto-dependent suburbs? More than you might expect.
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Transforming your community for the better probably doesn’t mean big, expensive, top-down projects. It’s the small neighborhood investments that can make your town or city truly strong.
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