We still tend to evaluate large-scale projects based on a mountain of assumptions about associated impacts. Change the assumptions and the ‘value’ of a project can change dramatically.
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This week Strong Towns will be focusing -- here in our media stream as well as on the ground -- on Minnesota's Iron Range communities.
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How we choose to spend our money is a reflection of who we are. not just as individuals but as states. When Washington spends billions to build new roads and a pittance to create safe, accessible streets, that says something about the state's priorities.
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Washington state, known for having one of the “greenest” administrations, just passed the largest transportation spending bill in the state’s history. Here are 5 ways that WSDOT and other DOTs are keeping us stuck squarely in the 1960s.
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A sophisticated set of questions a city should be asking when they are looking at doing a major project.
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Sadly, I sense PACs have been stuffed into the growing suite of orderly but dumb solutions. Imagine if we had to throw away the trendy instruction manual on how to become a "world-class city" and instead demanded of each other to just think. Imagine if we looked at our constraints (people, cash, geography, climate, culture) and then decided to work within them, creatively. That's what has always made places interesting and remarkable!
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The megaproject is the least-dumb idea that consensus provides.
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