People tend, understandably, to think they’ll be safer in an SUV—but what happens to our cities if everyone is driving a bigger vehicle?
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Some complain that getting rid of parking mandates is just an underhanded way of making auto use harder and harder in cities. But harder for whom, exactly?
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This brilliant story about alienation starts with two people alone in their cars.
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A site in Asheville, NC, is subject to a new development proposal to build multi-family housing—and in today’s housing market, that should be a good thing. But is this development contributing to a larger problem?
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The critique of car dependence is nothing new for Strong Towns readers—but here’s one that may make you think a little more deeply about the tradeoffs and illusions baked into North America’s transportation industry.
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Engineers would have us believe that we’re just one shiny new technology away from making streets safer for people walking.
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In walkable cities, it’s not hard to find a solution if you find yourself stranded. But what about in a car-dependent place?
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Galesburg, IL, is talking about Strong Towns ideas, centered around a question that many Strong Towns readers are familiar with: “Is our downtown built for cars instead of people?”
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With a baby on the way, I’ve been lectured multiple times about safe car seats, and heard nothing about how to minimize the most dangerous activity people do with their children: drive.
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This Not Just Bikes video takes a look at airport business parks as an interesting (and infuriating) case study for places designed for cars instead of people
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Humans aren’t the only “pedestrians” who benefit from safer, more walkable places.
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Because we depend so heavily on cars, what happens when roads become too icy to drive on? The answer: road salt. But there are serious consequences to relying on salt for road-clearing.
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Technology historian Peter Norton talks about why we need to be more skeptical toward the utopian promises of self-driving cars.
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A Studebaker factory once brought jobs to South Bend, IN, but what’s happened to the city (and its infrastructure) now that the factory has closed its doors?
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Automated vehicle technology will do nothing to make our streets better places to be.
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Many college campuses are designed to be walkable and human-scaled. But living in a great neighborhood like that doesn’t have to end at graduation.
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Big money “pedestrian” projects are often not for pedestrians at all. Their real purpose is to serve faster car traffic.
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Often lost in debates about whether or not to “subsidize” transit: the total cost of a system in which everyone drives is much higher than the total cost of a system in which other forms of transportation are attractive alternatives.
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In a “car place,” pedestrians are grudgingly tolerated. In a “pedestrian place,” cars are allowed to visit. We need a lot more of the latter. Here’s where to start.
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Getting yourself from Point A to Point B in your city shouldn’t require 100-square-feet of space.
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