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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.
Faith institutions already own land and want to help address community needs — can this include housing?
Before asking who should pay for rebuilding a street, ask whether we're rebuilding more than we can afford.
What if the most effective code enforcement for property management didn't stop at violations, but instead pointed people toward solutions?
Florida is walking a road California paved in 1978 — toward higher taxes, more state control, and less say for the cities caught in between.
For decades, Phoenix mandated more parking than it needed. The consequences are now impossible to ignore.
The next step toward safer streets doesn't require waiting for the next planning cycle.
Public engagement works best when residents are experts in their own lives, not amateur urban planners.
What two days with Strong Towns and a budget week in Manatee County, FL, taught me.
A small safety tool helped shine a light on a much bigger challenge.
The housing debate needs fewer tribes and more curiosity.
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