How do you get to work? How do you go grocery shopping? Andrew Price answers questions about living without a car.
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As part of "Strong Citizens" week, we're offering a member-exclusive webinar exploring the decision to run for elected office. Our panelists will explore some of the factors that go into that decision and the role of elected officials in making our communities strong.
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What's wrong with this picture?
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What do homebuddies do? Homebudding: growing homeyness. (Or in Strong Towns terminology, they create productive places.) Here's a video with examples of homebudding.
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All people are entitled to equal treatment under the law. So where did we get this notion that public roads should be only for one type of user — the motorist?
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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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What is the process involved in becoming locally influential on urban issues if you don't work for the government or a planning firm? Here are some tips I’ve pulled from my experience so far.
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When we prioritize local, we aren’t just participating in a trendy consumer pattern. We are actively building stronger local economies and stronger towns.
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What does the actual global middle class looks like? Take all 7.3 billion people on the planet and line them up according to material wealth like a statistician. Then look toward the center.
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The 7 skills a small-scale developer needs. Hint: If you don't have them, you can find someone who does.
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This week we chat with Placemaker Scott Doyon (Facebook / Web) about the Oakhurst Porchfest, a grassroots music festival held in Decatur, GA.
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Four examples of strong households from travels of Johnny Sanphillippo.
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Smart retailers everywhere are experimenting with urban-format stores, despite it forcing them to squish their big-box tendencies. This is probably my favourite so far. I can't tell if it's Québec standing up to Rona and saying, "Thou shalt not parking lot," or if it's Rona deciding that they want to grow their neighbourhood retail presence by forcing smallness upon themselves. Either way, it does the job.
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What if we didn't transform an empty school through an expensive mega-project? What if we could break it down into incremental steps?
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I asked my facebook friends this. The comments poured in, and they were so interesting and beautiful that I felt compelled to do something with them. So I wrote them out by hand.
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1) Chuck made a video appearance in Fredericton!
2) Also, I had my first experience of going door-to-door on my street.
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How does the segment of ST members who are not planning professionals or government officials can learn enough to effectively advocate for Strong Towns - to become Strong Citizens.
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Last week, I was pulled into a task force conversation on affordable housing by a couple local champions. The situation is this: our government operating subsidies for affordable housing are drying up. I'm putting together a "next-steps" sort of document for this task force and my brain keeps running in circles. I'd love to crowdsource from the best. Please fill me in on your Strong Towns approach to affordable housing in the comments. What would you do?
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In the spirit of moving from an awareness-building organization to a movement-building organization, Strong Towns has a fun new corner of the website for me. This year, I'll be sharing field notes on my journey/research into Strong Citizenship. In this regular column, you'll get pieces of my life as a friendly neighbour in a quintessential Little City that Feels Like a Big Town.
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Here are ten simple questions we call the Strong Towns Strength Test. A Strong Town should be able to answer “yes” to each of these questions.
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