These places all have many of the physical elements needed for success, quite frankly, because they were built for it originally. What they need most is people; people that care about the place and have the energy to make it better.
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Brian Ludicke is a planning director and Strong Towns member working to make his city of Lancaster, CA more walkable and more livable for everyone.
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Chuck's "Keep doing what you can to help build strong towns" podcast sign-off really has hit home with me. I'm not interested in the job of being a fancy politician — but I am deeply interested in doing whatever I can to build a strong district with safe streets.
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Building after massive building now sit empty in towns across America. Yours is up next.
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I found out the key to getting your bike back isn’t just registering it and filing a police report; it’s about having a social network that can come through for you.
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My attempts to build a tiny home have been thwarted by a hostile regulatory environment at every turn. So here's what I did instead.
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Dallas is not financially productive. There is too much area to service and maintain and not enough wealth to do it. There's too much stuff and not enough place.
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A nuanced response to four key arguments about the fall of Detroit. Hint: There's more to it than white flight or the auto industry.
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There’s a lot of talk these days about how Texas is the new California, but you need to take that concept with a grain of salt. It’s a short term phenomenon.
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I have a unique perspective on the topic of the working class, the poor, and the homeless. It isn’t an abstraction for me. I experienced these things directly in my own life.
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"The Strong Towns and Urban3 legacy in Santa Rosa is very much alive and well."
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In this final Elite Eight match-up of East Coast meets West Coast, your votes will determine the Strongest Town.
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Two California cities face off in our final Strongest Town match up for round one.
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On their weekly podcast, Rachel and Chuck discuss the way the Strong Towns movement and incremental development can be a path toward inclusion for women, minorities, and other marginalized communities.
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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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After a productive series of North Bay meetings, the principals from Strong Towns and Urban3 have gone home, but not before seeding the North Bay with ideas about further steps toward an urbanist, financially sustainable, climate change moderating future.
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Member Support Specialist, Jason Schaefer, makes a guest appearance on the podcast along with Rachel Quednau, to discuss the week's events in Santa Rosa, CA, as well as new members, favorite podcasts, and the book, The 4 Hour Work Week.
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Santa Rosa, CA faces the reality of unfunded infrastructure maintenance needs and a shortage of affordable housing. Strong Towns is headed there next week.
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San Francisco's Mission District is an example of everything that makes a Strong Town work: incremental development, urbanism oriented to people rather than cars, a deeply rooted local economy, and a distinctive sense of place. It's also in peril because of decades of collective failure to allow more places like it to be built.
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As Strong Towns advocates, we are catalysts for change, and the metaphorical walls that our institutions have erected against change are being chipped away.
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