It's Time for Human-Scale Personal Transit

Getting yourself from Point A to Point B in your city shouldn’t require 100-square-feet of space.

Top StoryArian HorbovetzMay 26, 2020e-scooters, biking, car culture, auto-oriented, covid

We’re getting another strip mall out on the edge of town, right next to the half-occupied strip mall built in 2007 before the last financial crisis.

MarohnCharles MarohnMay 26, 2020strip malls, stock market, debt, economic development, minnesota, covid, entrepreneurs

A Good Life in a Prosperous Place

The work of building your Strong Town doesn’t end with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, because the work is never done. That shouldn’t be discouraging. Rather, it should give our efforts meaning and energy.

MarohnCharles MarohnMay 22, 2020suburban experiment, prosperity, incrementalism, jane jacobs

Finding the Good Life on Danger Hill

We all want to live a good life in a prosperous place. The particulars of that vary—as this story shows—but it’s an opportunity that should be available to us all.

Top StoryJohn PattisonMay 22, 2020community, co-housing

This is What We Can Do Together

Strong Towns is empowering thousands of champions for change to bring their places back to greater prosperity, little by little, through bottom-up action. Here’s what that looks like.

Strong Towns Readers, It's Time to Take Action

We can’t solve complex problems with the same thinking that created them in the first place. All around North America, people are finding — and acting upon — a fresh approach to building strong towns and cities.

Top StoryRachel QuednauMay 21, 2020member testimonials, member week

I work for Strong Towns and sometimes even I don't know what the Strong Towns approach is.

Sometimes the way to best advocate for change in your city isn’t obvious or easy. And the inertia of the status quo is a challenge all its own.

7 Rules for Rehabilitating Suburbia

A lot of places that were built on the premise of efficient, manicured order are going to need to pivot to a different vision of the future: one based more on nimble, ad-hoc adaptation.

Herriges, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesMay 21, 2020suburbs, suburban retrofit, suburban poverty

Smart Cities: "Are we creating solutions looking for problems?"

Sidewalk Labs pulled the plug on a controversial smart cities project on the Toronto waterfront. This SHOULD effect other smart cities projects going forward — but will it?

Top Story, PodcastStrong TownsMay 21, 2020smart cities, Google, technology, canada

You're in the movement. Now here's the plan.

People all over North America are following these four simple steps to take action and grow the movement.

Top StoryRachel QuednauMay 20, 2020member testimonials, member week

The Local Leader's Toolkit: A Strong Towns Response to the Pandemic

The free guide to transforming your community into a stable and prosperous place.

Strong TownsMay 20, 2020eBook, covid

Better Bike Infrastructure, Better Budgets? This Member Thinks So.

Streets designed to keep people on bikes safe also boost community wealth. And budget-conscious city officials are starting to take notice.

Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsMay 19, 2020Strong Citizenship, community, how to, local food, biking, innovation

What Happens When you Find Strong Towns

The “lightning bolt moment” is different for everyone. But one thing a lot of these experiences have in common: the realization there are thousands standing with you.

Top StoryRachel QuednauMay 19, 2020member testimonials, praise, member week

"Does God care how wide a road is?"

There are many entry points to the Strong Towns conversation. For our content manager, it was asking big questions about how our cities’ development patterns can either bring people together or keep them apart.

Top StoryJohn PattisonMay 19, 2020churches, faith communities, development pattern, Parish Collective, religion

You Say You Want a Revolution

Our cities are littered with the bones of policies that failed because we tried to solve complex problems with top-down, technocratic solutions. So how does change happen?

A Game-Changing Resource for Local Leaders

Follow these steps and you’ll stabilize your community and lay the groundwork for the strongest possible recovery.

Top StoryStrong TownsMay 18, 2020eBook, resource, covid

We're Not in Mayberry Anymore. And That's a Good Thing.

Our cities and towns are too important — and too interesting — for sepia-toned daydreams.

Top StoryJohn PattisonMay 18, 2020

America's Growth Ponzi Scheme

The American pattern of development creates the illusion of wealth. Today we are in the process of seeing that illusion destroyed…and with it the prosperity we have come to take for granted.

Marohn, Trending, Thought LeadershipCharles MarohnMay 18, 2020growth ponzi scheme

Your Voice at Strong Towns: A Weekly Roundup 5/15

Fifteen people joined the Strong Towns Movement this week, and our community shared some great resources for people who want to get connected with their local farmers.