To my fellow small town Iowans: stop voting for policies that help you feel good, and start voting for policies that help you live well.
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Sure, Wal-Marts bring in some sales tax revenue, but that’s a far lower value to your city than you might think.
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We've heard repeatedly for the last three decades that our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling. So why is our response to build more?
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What will happen to this historic working class neighborhood in Cedar Rapids, IA?
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We need to leave the door open for the people who come after us.
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I remain curious as to why a casino plays such a central role in our city's discussions of economic development.
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That's a lot of accumulated bad planning, and a lot of surface parking, but now it's all water under the bridge. Those costs are sunk, that ship has sailed.
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I think this community-based approach could go much farther than any president to develop strong, inclusive local economies that would, in turn, help us face other seemingly intractable 21st century issues like climate, energy, diversity and government finance.
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How does a city balance the expectations of drivers with the needs of productive places and the people who use them, when fast-paced technological change may soon upend the basic realities on which such assessments are built?
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What is the future of work in a globalized economy?
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Regional planning can be antifragile when it is empowered to address the quality of the system as a whole.
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This week's featured member post comes from Bruce Nesmith's blog. Bruce discusses a proposed road widening project on I-380 between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. This provides a good preview to our #nonewroads campaign which will be featured the week of January 25th.
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As part of Strong Towns's Black Friday Parking event, I roused myself out of my warm house this morning after Thanksgiving--traditionally the start of the holiday shopping season, and possibly the biggest shopping day of the year--to go study parking lots.
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The City of Cedar Rapids is converting a number of its one-way streets in the downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods to two-way... or more precisely, back to two-way, since all of these streets used to be two-way back in the day.
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