Residents of Maricopa County in Arizona find themselves engaged in a war over water, as the county builds itself out beyond its means.
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In this Not Just Bikes video, Jason Slaughter explains how raising children in the suburbs significantly restricts their ability to be independent.
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The idea of a permanent community “character” was an invention of the suburban era, and it's showing its cracks now—because it was never an attainable or desirable goal.
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In the realm of urban planning, there’s plenty of discourse out there about housing affordability—but what about household wealth building?
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We tend to choose larger homes than we want our neighbors to choose. The result: suburban-style development that doesn't match what people actually want from their communities.
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Should states and counties push back against local governments to crack open more options for housing, or will that be counterproductive?
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This suburb is a growing place, but it's not a successful place. It risks becoming an increasingly isolating place full of people who are cut off from the economic mainstream.
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You don’t want to miss this CNBC documentary video about the financial fragility of the suburban development pattern.
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Some neighborhoods can feel downright hostile, especially to outsiders. But many places have become this way due to inhospitable design, not inhospitable people.
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From its one-time status as one of America’s most prosperous cities, Hartford, CT, is now one of the poorest—no thanks to its mid-twentieth-century urban renewal projects.
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Let’s #DoTheMath on some public infrastructure in Providence, RI.
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Some large companies are pivoting their real-estate models toward building more compact, mixed-use centers for their corporate campuses. Is this good or bad for America’s suburbs?
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Walking alone to the grocery store is, for me, like walking through a creepy hallway at night. Why? Because America is filled with liminal spaces.
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Just as kids ignore sidewalks in favor of walking a more efficient path through the grass, homeowners in California are voting with their toolbelts to create zoning desire paths.
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We all know about the Suburban Experiment here at Strong Towns—but are we now also starting to see the rise of a new paradigm?
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What are some of the hidden things we can’t see because we’re blinded by three generations of the Suburban Experiment?
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Schools across the U.S. are experiencing a bus driver shortage, but the root cause of this issue has less to do with the COVID pandemic than one might think.
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Somehow, as a society, we’ve drifted from ordinary people being able to build their own homes on a cash basis in an interactive, iterative way, to immense, hyper-elaborate habitats.
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If we continue toward a suburban development pattern, then should we move climate change efforts away from cities and to the suburbs, as well?
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We must stop seeing poor neighborhoods as "bad" neighborhoods, and instead understand them as intrinsically goods ones, whose problems are addressable if we empowered the people who care about them.
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