Forget Barbie. What does the Millennial Dream House look like?
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Macon-Bibb County, Georgia, could address pedestrian safety by making real, substantial improvements to the design of its streets. Instead, it’s urging people on foot to… dress in brighter colors?
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How much of car culture is attributable to the early designers and marketers who figured out how to make cars stylish and beautiful? A new book profiles GM’s Harley Earl, one of the forerunners of America’s automotive obsession.
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On November 16th, you can ask us anything. And we mean anything.
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Earthship 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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Something as small as public art can help transform the public’s perception of a troubled neighborhood park. It’s a testament to the power of bottom-up, incremental change.
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Design that provides a little psychological nudge can be an inexpensive, easily-implemented way to address problems like pedestrian fatalities. But sometimes what we need is good, old-fashioned concrete.
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An assisted-living facility in Ohio offers a nostalgic, Norman Rockwell-esque setting modeled on traditional neighborhoods—the very sort of beloved, timeless places that we’ve all but stopped building in the real world.
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Policy choices are often presented to us as simplistic binaries, or irresolvable clashes of competing values. Have the courage to step outside that box and ask more fundamental questions.
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The smallest step might actually be the smartest one.
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A local’s guide to St. Louis — through a Strong Towns lens.
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5 lessons I learned from conducting a tactical urbanism demonstration in my city.
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In the past week alone, we added more than 150 brand new names to our roster of Strong Citizens.
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Your daily actions might feel small and unimportant, but when they’re part of a movement, they add up to something much bigger.
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After exhausting what seemed like every option in our quest to buy a rental property in a poor neighborhood, it was time to change course.
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After finding an ideal property in a neighborhood we wanted to invest in, getting a bank to finance our purchase turned out to be a huge hurdle.
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6 months ago, my partner and I tried to buy an ailing property in a poor neighborhood and transform it into quality affordable housing. Here’s what happened instead.
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It’s about so much more than just the cost of housing.
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"Affordability" is about far more than just the price of rent.
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Can we put a dollar value on parks, even though they don't pay taxes?
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