Winnipeg says how much infrastructure it can afford is based on “personal preference.” But doing the math tells a different — and alarming — story.
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There are only a couple reforms Strong Towns recommends unequivocally for every town and city. Sacramento just passed both of them…unanimously…in one evening.
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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.
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Fernando Peralta Berrios—president at the Las Familias de Rosemont neighborhood association in Fort Worth, Texas—discusses how he and his neighbors have partnered with the City of Fort Worth to guide public investment in its historically disinvested neighborhood.
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Sandpoint, Idaho eliminated its downtown parking minimums 10 years ago. Since then, at least four projects that could not otherwise have happened have brought new vibrancy and economic productivity to downtown.
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Do the new guidelines go too far, not far enough, or are they just right (for now)?
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Spoiler: it doesn’t look like more police stations, more top-down programs, or more incarceration.
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Visit the Hyde Park neighborhood in South Los Angeles and you’ll find the usual culprits of a food desert, such as fast-food chains and gas stations. But enter Kelli Jackson’s corner store—Hank’s Mini Market—and you’ll discover how cities can address food deserts without forgoing future tax revenue.
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Salvador “Sal” Galdamez—founder and president of nonprofit York XL—shares how you can bring your neighbors together around bottom-up action to create more prosperous, healthy, and empowered neighborhoods.
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This Canadian city is set to get a new, $2 billion, state-of-the-art hospital. All well and good except for one thing: why do they want to build it in a rural area on the far outskirts of town?
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There’s nothing like taking to the streets on foot to understand the place you live a bit better. In this spirit, the work of Strong Towns helped inform a program of “walking audits” at a Florida university that teaches students to recognize how urban design affects both the financial and ecological sustainability of our cities.
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Equipped with “grit and grind”—but also with a whole lot of good data on the financial consequences of past development decisions—Memphis, Tennessee is taking smart steps toward a bottom-up renaissance. Just ask its Chief Operating Officer, Doug McGowen.
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State transportation departments are often maddeningly resistant to change, and can be the biggest obstacle facing safe-streets advocates. A new article series from Smart Growth America digs deep into what has to happen—and is happening—to reform these agencies from the inside.
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America’s deadly streets are a slow-rolling emergency, thanks in part to the engineering practice of designing city streets just like wide-open highways. A new video influenced by Strong Towns thinking explores the history of this disastrous idea.
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One Strong Towns member on what he’s gained from being part of the movement.
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Our members have catalyzed a movement that reaches tens of thousands of people every week.
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One Strong Towns member on why he’s part of the movement.
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Strong Towns member Justin Golbabai led his town toward a victory in reducing parking minimum laws.
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The town of Thomasville, GA is taking small and affordable but very impactful steps to make its downtown more welcoming to people on bikes.
Mayor Lou Radkowski of St Marys, PA is taking Strong Towns concepts to heart and implementing them in his community.
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