A Victory Garden doesn’t just grow healthy food. It builds a regenerative foundation for creating surplus through the active responsibility of its citizens' output. A Victory Garden tests and adjusts the resiliency measures on which public policy sits.
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The cost of commuting places a disproportionally heavy burden on the working poor--some of whom pay as much as 75% of their income on transportation. The gap between “making it” and “falling behind” is literally being exacerbated by the mistakes of transportation and land use planning past.
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Two midwestern towns face off in our march madness competition.
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Many of us tend to think of water as something to be seen on vacation. But you don't need to live in a beachside villa in the Caribbean in order to experience the value of water.
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The Strong Towns message has specific implications for women's safety, leadership and parenting.
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Strong Towns thinking has helped us become more precise in our input, and more effective in our education. Some of us as individuals have become members in order to show our appreciation, and to add to the dialog. It has been one of our best investments in helping to shape the city we want.
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Should a mixed-use neighborhood become dominated by bars and restaurants, or will its residents fight to preserve its diverse character?
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For one weekend in September, more than 150 buildings throughout the Milwaukee metro area open their doors and welcome visitors throughout the day.
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Dear Milwaukee, learn from the mistakes you didn't make. Don't build an entertainment district. Instead, let your city develop incrementally.
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We can build all the crosswalk signs we want, but if the cars are driving too fast, those signs will still go unnoticed. Narrower streets are a natural, affordable and lasting solution to pedestrian crossing issues.
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A ruling last week in U.S. District Court has potentially profound implications for road widening projects. This podcast features an interview with Steve Hiniker, Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, the plaintiff that prevailed in a recent lawsuit against the USDOT, WisDOT and others. We also speak with an appellate attorney, Mahesha Subbaraman, about details in the ruling and potential subsequent moves.
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New York is frequently painted as the ideal city by urbanists, and this has resulted in a lot of justifiable skepticism from others. Here are some ways New York City’s big ideas can scale down to mid-size cities and small towns.
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Comprehensive affordable housing that actually benefits a community is not just cheap housing.
Read MoreOver the years I've found something I think people who love walkable, human-oriented places collectively struggle with: we want to get the *very best* urban design codified and implemented in our cities. This is of course the right end-goal, but it hurts us by limiting our ability to productively deal with overwhelming quantity of low-quality, underperforming space in the city.
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