No amount of cultured stone or decorative landscaping is going to make this proposed gas station a valuable or contributing part of our walkable, mixed-use neighborhood.
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Urban planning consultant, Kyle Smith, talks about the findings of a recent report he co-wrote: “Stalled Out: How Empty Parking Spaces Diminish Neighborhood Affordability.”
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Even in a struggling town, there is huge momentum to make it stronger. Here are three stories that gave me hope during a recent Strong Towns event in Rockford.
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Soon after this couple moved to Rockford, IL they found there was work to be done to make it a stronger town. They recently shared the impact of the Strong Towns movement on that work.
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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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Public transit is environmentally-friendly, affordable and helpful for economic development. But there's a fourth virtue of public transit: it saves space.
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Rockford faces the challenge of reinventing itself while also meeting the mounting obligations of decades of infrastructure expansion. We did a little digging of our own to try and better understand the true nature of the deficit.
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Strong Towns member, Mark Dawson, muses on walkability and bikeability in his Chicago neighborhood.
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Necessary repairs to roads and streets often get put off for a later time despite the fact that we see them decline before our eyes. This is an even bigger problem for underground infrastructure where the problem is out of sight, out of mind.
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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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