Fiscally-informed planning, design, and community engagement to cultivate strong neighborhoods.
Culture Shifts Require Being, Not Doing
This was originally published by ELGL as a part of AJ’s monthly series. You can access all of the posts in the series and learn more about AJ on the Future-Proofing Cities homepage.
Balancing Support and Challenge in Our Communities
Some observations about how embracing challenge has changed the way I interact with my community, and how it can lead to more fruitful communities.
Local government simplicity in four steps
AJ Fawver on four steps to building more simplicity into city government.
Three key ingredients for growing your local restaurant scene
Tim Wright shares three lessons learned from a local restaurateur who began as a pop-up chef.
Skillful stewardship in times of crisis
What lessons can the pandemic teach us about communities that endure?
Cul-de-sacs: not so nice
A few brief responses to arguments for the cul-de-sac.
Autocentricity: a better villain
We could eliminate all exclusive single-family zoning everywhere and still have autocentric, segregated, oppressive cities, argues Felix Landry.
The tax burden footprint of tax-exempt properties
We should be making sure that our development pattern pencils out. That means we should also be thinking critically about the land footprint of non-revenue-producing properties like schools and places of worship.
The secret to a successful local improvement project
How do you make your community project successful? Always start by looking for partners.