Sometimes, cities say that they’re taking an incremental approach when they’re really just breaking a master plan down into steps. This method lacks the creative, bottom-up nature that makes incremental development so resilient, tricking people into believing they’re making their city stronger when they’re really not.
Read MoreMany cities try to improve their downtowns through master plans, hoping that grand projects will draw residents and customers into the city core. But this often fails because truly strong, attractive downtowns form through incremental development.
Read MoreWith work patterns shifting as technology advances, retrofitting suburban office buildings has become increasingly important to developers and planners. Here are five ways you can make your office building more appealing and resilient.
Read MoreNot only does supporting local farms help with your place’s local economy, but it also has the potential to create a flourishing and connected culture of people—as seen in these stories from Brattleboro, VT.
Read MoreBecoming resilient isn’t magic. It’s hard work that starts with knowing our neighbors.
Read MoreCities are complex systems, and wrapping your mind around them can be tough. Here are some frameworks to guide you.
Read MoreThe way we build our neighborhoods in North America is nothing like making a pizza. But maybe it should be.
Read MoreTwo of our favorite storytellers—Urban3 and Not Just Bikes—come together in this awesome video.
Read MoreThis excerpt from Beth Hoffman’s Bet the Farm tells how both local economies and farms can benefit from co-ops.
Read MoreOne of the realities about cities is that they change—but in America, most cities are trapped in a regulatory environment that makes change extremely costly.
Read MoreWe must stop building more infrastructure in our cities and switch instead to a model of intensive maintenance, combined with making better use of what has already been built.
Read MoreThese 4 steps will put your city or town on the path toward greater resilience and sovereignty.
Read MoreA model of what the future could look like for communities that depend on extractive industry, if they make the right investments.
Read MoreTaking local action builds resilience and improves a community’s quality of life in deeply meaningful ways. This is never more evident than when disaster strikes.
Read MoreEvery major historical event is accompanied by predictions that it will change everything forever. For the most part, it never does.
Read MoreThe most brilliant innovations in building cities are already embodied in the traditional development pattern, a foolproof approach to creating resilient and productive places that was developed the hard way.
Read MoreAt 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.
Read MoreChange may come, but it isn’t going to be planned or voluntary. Instead we’re all going to absorb a variety of unintended consequences.
Read MoreOff-grid living appeals to many. But often, the lifestyle as practiced doesn’t amount to a strong or sustainable community.
Read MoreEarthship Biotecture is an attempt to answer a radical question: can you build a house that not only needs substantially less infrastructure than the average home, but needs almost no infrastructure at all?
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