If your growth strategy only works as long as wealthy people live in your town, your growth strategy is deeply fragile. | Continue reading
As technology becomes cheaper and more commonplace, it’s not driving us away from cities. Rather, it’s making the other attributes of place—especially human capital, social interaction and quality of life—more valuable. | Continue reading
Perhaps we should spend more time trying to understand and appreciate the humble, marginally better neighborhoods that are already tucked away in our cities. Here’s one such neighborhood in Lexington, Kentucky. | Continue reading
The West End neighborhood of Vancouver, BC challenges common assumptions about compatible development: its eclectic mix of high-rises and smaller buildings amid shady streets shouldn’t make for a cohesive, appealing place, and yet it does. | Continue reading
Two large development projects currently working their way through the public engagement and approvals process illustrate why suburban retrofit is a really tough proposition to stake our future on. | Continue reading
"Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford." If you’ve said this lately, or heard someone else say it, here are five possible reasons why. | Continue reading
New maps from Urban3 visualize the shocking disparities in who is actually footing municipal bills in California. | Continue reading
What would the opposite of the Strong Towns approach look like? | Continue reading
To my fellow small town Iowans: stop voting for policies that help you feel good, and start voting for policies that help you live well. | Continue reading
A “war on cars” won’t win many hearts and minds. Let’s ask for responsibility instead. | Continue reading
Gas stations and dollar stores have taken the place of the corner store in most neighborhoods. Can this ship be turned around? | Continue reading
When large storefronts sit empty for years, holding out for the perfect big tenant, while small businesses can’t find space to rent, we’ve got a serious problem. | Continue reading
Taxation is a powerful planning tool, whether we want it to be or not. | Continue reading
If you're talking about growth, decline or gentrification and you're not talking about the motivations of residents, newcomers, developers, and everyone else… you've already misunderstood the problem. | Continue reading
Run your city with business principles, just don’t run it with business values. | Continue reading
Why all these new storefronts are sitting vacant. | Continue reading
The current climate of distrust and pushback against new development is a recipe for perpetual housing problems. | Continue reading
If you want your community to prosper, stop building new infrastructure. | Continue reading
Incremental transit expansion should be Nashville’s new path forward. | Continue reading
The closing of the mall’s anchor store exposes how fragile the community’s business model is, providing an opening to shift approach. | Continue reading