The 85th percentile rule makes it hard to ensure safe streets, so residents of northeast Kansas City took matters into their own hands.
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The same design principles behind Japanese gardens can make the building of resilient and financially strong places into a joy, rather than a burden.
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Our cities need to be shaped by many hands, not few. Whether you’re a professional or not, you have an important role to play in this process.
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Will switching away from internal combustion engines actually mitigate the the environmental and social costs imposed by large vehicles, like the pickup truck?
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This week on the Strong Towns Podcast, we’ve invited back a popular past guest and regular Strong Towns contributor: Johnny Sanphillippo.
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Today I’m sharing a plan I offered to my colleagues on our local parking committee. My hope is that it'll benefit those who are thinking through similar issues in their places.
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Exploring the property market in Appleton, WI, reveals the ephemeral nature of the North American development pattern.
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The 85th percentile, protective grazing, and de-anthropomorphizing cities. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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Check out this preview of Ilana Preuss’s Recast Your City to find out how small-scale manufacturing can help bring struggling neighborhoods back to life.
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Give a warm welcome to Sarah Davis, our summer Urban3/Strong Towns intern.
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When it comes to creating strong neighborhoods, there are some valuable lessons to be had from slowing down the pace and seeking novelty in the ordinary.
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Learn from local advocates who are fighting a damanging road project in Louisiana.
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Ilana Preuss is an urban planner, consultant, and author of a new book called Recast Your City.
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The recent tragedy in Surfside, Florida, is both a harbinger of things to come and emblematic of the nation’s larger problem with maintaining our built environment.
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Globally beloved animator Hayao Miyazaki has a secret he’s been hiding in plain sight for years: he’s one of the best urban designers and thinkers of our time.
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Not every problem associated with housing is directly a supply or scarcity issue, but housing scarcity is real, and it tends to make just about all the other problems associated with housing worse.
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Woodward Avenue in Michigan is as good a spot as any to think of as the birthplace of the auto-oriented development pattern. But if we can see our past there, we can also glimpse our future.
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Does YOUR city have problems? Learn how to solve them with one WEIRD, simple trick!
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The advice to “keep your options open” is having a negative impact on our cities. Here’s why.
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We’ve been asked for news on the federal lawsuit we filed against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure. Here’s some more info on the case and how it’s proceeding.
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