Missouri’s governor is stuck on a mid-20th-century economic model, wherein connecting cities via interstates provides big economic returns. But such a mindset is going to do a lot more harm than good in today’s world.
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…Because effective public transit isn’t just about the rails; it’s about what happens around them.
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This film makes a human rights case for safer streets, while showing the historic roots of safe streets advocacy in the U.S. and the power of tactical urbanism.
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Galesburg, IL, is talking about Strong Towns ideas, centered around a question that many Strong Towns readers are familiar with: “Is our downtown built for cars instead of people?”
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With a baby on the way, I’ve been lectured multiple times about safe car seats, and heard nothing about how to minimize the most dangerous activity people do with their children: drive.
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Leadership in Indianapolis has taken strides toward lifting parking minimums, and making their city less car dependent and more transit friendly—all while keeping their fiscal house in order.
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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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This interactive map allows you to view just how much space is being wasted in your city (and in the rest of the U.S.) on parking lots.
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A recent article states that “real progress on climate change will require innovations that some on the left won’t like.” What’s the Strong Towns response?
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This Not Just Bikes video takes a look at airport business parks as an interesting (and infuriating) case study for places designed for cars instead of people
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North Virginia will make multi-billion dollar decisions this year on the region’s transportation future—decisions that are only going to induce more driving.
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When gas prices spike, the core issue we, as a nation, should be fixating on is car dependency.
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Every time gasoline and oil prices spike, Americans panic—but don’t do anything to change the system. This is a cycle that cannot continue.
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Because we depend so heavily on cars, what happens when roads become too icy to drive on? The answer: road salt. But there are serious consequences to relying on salt for road-clearing.
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Technology historian Peter Norton talks about why we need to be more skeptical toward the utopian promises of self-driving cars.
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Michel Durand-Wood takes us on a hilarious walk through the stages of grief as he puts a financial spike in the heart of his beloved city’s unsustainable 2050 Master Plan.
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How we embrace socialism for car storage in the public right of way.
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For significant populations of people in the U.S., the requirement to drive is a major barrier to participating in city life.
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Walking permits us to acquire more robust data about our surroundings than does traveling by car. Here are three questions to help guide you as you traverse your city on foot.
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Will switching away from internal combustion engines actually mitigate the the environmental and social costs imposed by large vehicles, like the pickup truck?
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