The federal government pays the upfront costs for infrastructure, but the responsibility for its maintenance is yours. Forever.
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Do no harm: put your people and their needs at the heart of your approach. Here’s how.
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The top-down approach puts systems ahead of people and politics ahead of place—which is not what we need if we want to actually fix our infrastructure.
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The Plan pretends to dig us out of the infrastructure hole we've dug ourselves into. In reality, it's making the hole bigger.
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The story has been that we don’t spend enough on infrastructure. But what’s the whole truth?
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There is nothing in the plan that is going to substantively change the trajectory of the North American development pattern.
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The problem isn’t a lack of political consensus. The problem is consensus around a failed vision of how to achieve American prosperity.
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After World War II, the federal government subsidized a massive suburban experiment that was completely unprecedented in human history. But—as a mostly-forgotten 1942 manual by the Department of Commerce makes clear—it didn’t have to be that way.
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For years, you’ve been doing the work of building a stronger, more resilient, and more prosperous community. Members of Congress are noticing.
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A conversation with Chris Arnade and Tim Carney is delightful, insightful, and an important way to frame the upcoming year.
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When it comes to infrastructure spending, politicians on both ends of the political spectrum get it wrong—but in different ways.
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A review of the White House infrastructure plan reveals a few rough spots, but also a lot to like.
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Writer Chris Arnade talks about a life getting to know people on the margins of society—people living in poverty and dealing with addiction—and the struggles of small towns in America.
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Our approach to building strong towns isn't driven by large influxes of federal money or top-down, cookie cutter government programs.
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A federal infrastructure bill is going to make your city poorer in the long run. Here's how.
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In this final podcast of 2016, founding member of Strong Towns, Seth Zeren, and Chuck Marohn talk about the results of the election and its impact on the national dialogue.
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Scale our economy to those working at the ground level and we will see a true prosperity emerge from the fear and acrimony that is our national dialog.
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After some travel and contemplation, Chuck Marohn offers some thoughts on the presidential election, Strong Towns and the future of America.
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Throughout the election, we've chosen to focus our attention toward the issue of infrastructure spending. Now it's time to consider what our new president will do about it.
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Scale our economy to those working at the ground level and we will see a true prosperity emerge.
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