Wondering what our past podcast guests are up to? We checked in with four of them to hear about their progress.
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Let's talk about some core Strong Towns concepts: complexity, incrementalism, fragility, and more!
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These brothers are pushing for incremental infill development in Memphis, Tennessee, with a community they’re building just north of downtown.
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“No neighborhood should be exempt from change. No neighborhood should be subjected to radical change.” Let’s examine what this core Strong Towns principle actually means.
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For our real-estate markets to allow incremental development to be economically viable, there are some challenges we need to confront.
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A common objection to broad upzonings is, “Won't allowing more development everywhere set off speculative feeding frenzies?” The answer? No. Here’s why.
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If we’re going to be stuck with strip malls, then this one in Virginia is about as fine-grained and urban as it gets.
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Connecticut’s Hartford Land Bank isn’t just stewarding the rehabilitation of its community—it’s also bringing up the next generation of local small-scale developers.
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Here are some touchstone concepts that help underlie the Strong Towns view of how to achieve a world full of places capable of growing bottom-up prosperity
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This study conducted in the U.K. supports concepts about incrementalism that could, and should, be adopted in North American places.
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What will it take to get back the ecosystems of tradespeople, laborers, lenders, and small-scale developers who made incremental development possible in the past?
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In everyday life, people usually say “I need a plan” if something has gone wrong. Plans should play a similar role in cities.
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Planning must become a job that planners can actually do in a 40-hour work week. This will require a different approach to planning, altogether.
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Who is actually going to do the work of incremental development, and what will their motivations be?
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For most small-scale developers, capital is a significant barrier to doing small infill projects. But that isn't because the money isn't there to be had.
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A cohort of small developers representing over 100 properties in poor, disinvested neighborhoods are, together, the largest developer in South Bend, IN. Can their success be replicated?
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Incremental development today is far from the path of least resistance. To do it, you'll need the ability to navigate dozens of regulatory barriers.
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We need people who will build in the places where big, corporate developers won’t. But how do we get enough small-scale developers back to make a difference?
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How should we think about scalable impact, and how should it inform our approach when trying to grapple with big, pervasive problems?
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We get a lot of questions over at the Action Lab, and today we’re going to answer some of them!
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