A Michigan town and a North Dakota town go head to head in the latest Strongest Town Contest match up.
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Fixing the lead problem sounds good and all, but it’s little more than infrastructure whack-a-mole given how much other stuff is deteriorating at an incredible pace.
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The worst part of all of this is that it happened to a poor and largely Black community. But they set an example for what citizen activism should be.
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This is how we do business in America. We’ve dedicated our resources to building new things with little regard to fixing it first.
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Chuck and Rachel discuss upcoming trips to Burlington, VT and Los Angeles, as well as the Flint water crisis and pipe maintenance issues throughout the country.
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It's possible that large parts of Flint could be served with really high quality water for drinking and sanitation at a fraction of the cost while preserving the existing, lead-infested system for fire fighting purposes only.
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The late philosopher and civil rights activist, Grace Lee Boggs, shares serious wisdom about her hometown of Detroit, and its resilience and evolution in spite of enormous challenges.
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When you don't know how to deal with something, destroy it. That's the strategy Baltimore and several other major cities have employed in the face of thousands of vacant homes.
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We're all Detroit. The sooner we realize it, the sooner we can commit ourselves to building a nation of strong towns.
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Andrés Duany, co-founder of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU), discusses the prospects for Lean Urbanism within local government.
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