
The Substack home of Charles Marohn, founder and president of Strong Towns.
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A major shift is happening in infrastructure conversations right now.
For decades, the dominant instinct was expansion. Build bigger systems. Extend the line. Add capacity. Capture growth before someone else does. If a project could be del...
(Source: City of Hermantown/Facebook)
There are some decisions a city can make and recover from. A bad zoning call, a misjudged project, even a poorly timed investment. These things can all be corrected over time. They may be painful, but...
(Source: Instagram/@alleghenycounty)
A number of people sent me a public service announcement from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, about pedestrian safety.
The video is straightforward. A person approaches a crosswalk, and the narrator ru...
Federally funded transportation projects are often justified using modeling tools that are known to be flawed, opaque and structurally biased toward expansion. These tools are not designed to accurately predict the future, but to produce a...
Growth is supposed to make a place stronger. More development, more tax base, more opportunity. That’s the story most of us inherited.
But the math tells a different story.
In project after project, the upfront gains are easy to see in ne...
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