The Suburban Experiment has an 80-year head start on us, but there’s an increasing number of people who recognize the many things they can do to correct it. Join this growing cohort of change-makers by becoming a member today.
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The Strong Towns movement is steadily progressing to the next phase of its mission. A substantial number of people are convinced of the principles behind the movement, and they want to roll up their sleeves and get to work. Here’s how to make the leap from building awareness to actually changing the default of North America’s built environment.
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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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If there has ever been a good time to change our development pattern, the time is now.
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Developers are starting to view downtown abandoned office buildings as easy cash—that is, if you can find the right sort of abandoned office.
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A real estate listing can be used as a roadmap to the attributes that Strong Towns advocates for: human-scale development, safe places to walk and bike, and responsive local government.
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The state of Florida has a bold new strategy to eliminate the adverse effects of urban sprawl: Change the definition.
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White Flint, MD, presents a great case study for how a community can begin shifting the conversation on its transportation infrastructure and development pattern.
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Calculating the 100-year lifecycle costs of new development shouldn’t be an obscure process, and the province of British Columbia, Canada, has created a tool to help its communities do exactly that.
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Zoning restrictions in this Minneapolis suburb have rendered much of its original development in violation of its current rules. The city’s leadership is looking to change that.
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The way we build our neighborhoods in North America is nothing like making a pizza. But maybe it should be.
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Mixed-use development was once the norm in cities and towns, but most Americans no longer remember how it works. Here are 3 easy-to-understand forms that mixed use could (and should) take in your community.
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The Suburban Experiment is a bad business model, and nothing demonstrates that more clearly than Jackson, Mississippi’s, ongoing water crisis.
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Question: “Why don’t people dance in the street today?” Answer: Because the design of our cities shapes the design of our lives.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss: "We don't need a gas tax holiday. We need a gas tax reset: an overhaul of how we approach transportation funding.”
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Residents of Maricopa County in Arizona find themselves engaged in a war over water, as the county builds itself out beyond its means.
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Progress on climate change can and will come if we use a bottom-up approach to changing our development pattern.
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We tend to choose larger homes than we want our neighbors to choose. The result: suburban-style development that doesn't match what people actually want from their communities.
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We love organically grown, incrementally developed cities…but could we replicate their success if we started a new city from scratch?
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You don’t want to miss this CNBC documentary video about the financial fragility of the suburban development pattern.
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