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Showing up to city hall costs a few minutes and the adrenaline of speaking in public. Sweat equity is a different currency.
How can incremental development solve the housing crisis when each effort feels too small to make a difference?
New housing can make rents lower than they otherwise would have been. That is not the same as producing homes people can afford.
Seeking out ways to build more beauty in our lives.
The difference between landscaping that covers up our mistakes and landscaping that helps create a place.
What communities and families can do to give children more independence, stronger relationships, greater responsibility, and a place to belong.
But they’re wrong about why.
A new database shows how the design of a road decides whether travel money stays in a community or leaves it.
What if communities had more control over their transportation priorities?
A federal court has answered a question that matters for every professional willing to challenge the practices of their own profession.
A simple way for cities to see whether duplexes, fourplexes, and sixplexes actually fit through the regulations.
A highway can get wider without the underlying problem getting smaller.
Post Falls is growing rapidly. Its mayor is asking whether that growth is making the city poorer.
Houston's public transit upgrades during the World Cup show how a city can take the next smallest step toward transportation improvements by using the infrastructure it already has.
Expertise gives us a lens, but every lens also filters. That's why we need multiple kinds of experts when addressing street safety.
We get to housing affordability when cities function like ecosystems, not algae in a food chain of governments.
The three traps that keep us from building better places.
Find out in these conversations about practical, creative ways to make your community stronger.
A dangerous Minnesota roundabout shows what happens when engineers preserve future traffic capacity at the expense of safety today.
How a flawed 1926 ruling still undermines American values, ingenuity and self-reliance.
It's not spending versus taxes. It's productivity versus liabilities.
Every fatal crash leaves two lives permanently altered: the person who died, and the person who now has to live with having taken another person’s life.
Strong Towns says "yes" to big buildings near transit stations. However, it's a debt coming due, not a victory.
A Rhode Island town discovered that the strongest foundation for a comprehensive plan wasn't a list of projects, but a shared understanding of what was worth protecting.
How one citizen and one mayor showed what local government is supposed to be.
When borrowed authority disappears, local leadership has to take its place.
Community revitalization depends on accountability, but it also depends on giving the first people willing to invest a realistic chance to succeed.
When a crash happens, at first glance we might blame the driver, then perhaps the designer. But take it a step further: why was the design allowed to pass, to begin with?
Austin's falling rents have become a canonical story. That should make us more curious, not less.
Smart Growth America’s newest report shows pedestrian deaths hovering near 40-year highs. U.S. cities have seen huge increases in walking deaths since the agency began tracking the problem in 2009.
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