When we build more roads or widen existing roads, drivers and traffic will come. This phenomenon is known as induced demand
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The City of Sebastopol recently debuted its most recent attempt at slowing traffic in town: Slow Down Cat!
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Last week was obviously a big week for new members, but it was also a big week for renewing members.
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Our member drive continues to gain momentum. Thank you everyone for all of your support. Here's an update on some rankings.
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Here are five reasons to become a Strong Towns member
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Ah, the lonely hearts club.. These three states have just a single Strong Towns member.
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We’re creating a nationwide movement, state by state. That means your state too! Here’s our top 10 list of Strong Towns members per state in 2015, ranked per capita.
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Autonomous vehicles have the potential to change the way we develop our cities in very positive ways. They could, in fact, be one more chink in the armor of the existing 'build it and they will come' model of auto-oriented suburbia with its wide roads and vast acres of parking.
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I’ve been able to be carless for long stints of my adult life. Perhaps that’s why this recent post from our member blogroll caught my attention.
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We've all looked at a property or lot in our community and thought to ourselves: "If only somebody would do something with that." Well perhaps that somebody is you!
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Land-use and urban planning are like the hardware of a city while the kind of work many community builders and social entrepreneurs are doing to nurture local businesses and start-ups is like the software.
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We talk a lot at Strong Towns about how a street designed around automobiles with little regard for people has an assortment of negative consequences. One of them is economic vitality. Particularly for store fronts in downtowns with a stroad running past them.
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I spent some time last week in Rapid City, SD. Rapid City (pop. 70,000) is a regional hub with medical and educational offerings. It also has a robust tourism economy with Mount Rushmore and Sturgis being nearby. However, like many communities, its downtown had fallen into neglect over time.
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One of my favorite podcast episodes, and one I go back to fairly often, is Strong Towns Talking Transit. It was an off-site panel discussion during Railvolution.
A major theme from that discussion was that a good transit project connects productive places. I’ve been thinking about that insight a great deal this past week.
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Necessary repairs to roads and streets often get put off for a later time despite the fact that we see them decline before our eyes. This is an even bigger problem for underground infrastructure where the problem is out of sight, out of mind.
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