Residents of small towns shouldn’t have to travel to a large urban downtown to get a taste of a walkable, people-centered environment.
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Humans aren’t the only “pedestrians” who benefit from safer, more walkable places.
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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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Good urbanism can save bad architecture any day—if your goal is to create a place worth being and maintaining and belonging to.
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As the housing crisis grows more severe, cities are looking outside the box for solutions. Case in point, a program in Israel that became a significant source of new housing, almost by accident.
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An urbanist abroad discovers that Tokyo faces many of the same challenges as U.S. cities — off-street parking, pedestrian safety, utilizing space, etc. — but is addressing them in very different ways.
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At Strong Towns, we have a lot of good things to say about the kind of places we built before the automobile era. Does that mean it’s really all just about nostalgia for a simpler time? Hardly.
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What is the future of work in a globalized economy?
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Neither raw commerce nor government bureaucracies can ever deliver the same quality results as a close-knit subculture. This is quite evident in the community kitchens of the Sikhs.
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What does the actual global middle class looks like? Take all 7.3 billion people on the planet and line them up according to material wealth like a statistician. Then look toward the center.
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