Two rules for healthy neighborhood change, why a market correction is going to be painful (but also necessary), and why we need to talk about walkability for locals and not just for tourists. These stories and more in our weekly roundup.
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It’s always been important that we build towns and cities that are strong for people of all ages and abilities. Huge demographic shifts make it urgent too.
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The way we design our cities guarantees a flood of congestion. And then we pour billions of dollars into highway expansion, only to worsen the problem we created in the first place.
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13 things the smartest small town leaders are doing to create stronger, more vibrant communities.
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Fernando Peralta Berrios—president at the Las Familias de Rosemont neighborhood association in Fort Worth, Texas—discusses how he and his neighbors have partnered with the City of Fort Worth to guide public investment in its historically disinvested neighborhood.
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Great urbanism: if it’s good enough for a vacation, then it’s good enough for everyday life.
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Kansas City, Missouri recently announced plans to offer free bus service across its system. How will the city pay for it and what role, if any, does free transit play in building a strong town?
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The way we grow our cities today produces a few winners and many losers. Here's how to get back to places that serve all of us.
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Can we break free of our car addiction? It may be possible, but it won’t be easy…or fast.
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Put away the Excel sheet and go for a long walk.
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A cautionary tale from the superheated housing market of San Francisco.
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No matter the domain or field—city government, planning and engineering, and even our own families and communities—we all leave a legacy. The question is: will it be the legacy we intended to leave?
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We often talk about cities in vague phrases and buzzwords that obscure more than they illuminate. It’s time to stop.
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A retrenchment in the stock market will be devastating to our cities. It’s also inevitable and, in some ways, necessary.
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Eight things in our cities we should never build again, a massive freeway widening in Austin, and the three simple words our communities should learn to become more prosperous. These and other stories in our weekly roundup.
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Strong Towns member Cindy Long discusses how the Strong Towns Community inspired her to ask her city council the hard questions about the city's financial status.
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Nationally, we’re incredibly polarized. But zoom in on the local level—where life happens—and you’ll see we have more bright spots than dark clouds.
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The State of Texas is prepared to fully fund a massive freeway widening project through the heart of Austin. Have we learned nothing? (Answer: apparently not.)
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To grow sustainably, Anchorage (like so many other cities) should adopt a land value tax.
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A wealthy Bay Area suburb is resisting new development. This is raising questions not just about California’s housing crisis, but about who gets to decide a city’s housing future.
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