Daniel Herriges
Strong Towns
Sarasota, FL, United States
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Has Statewide Upzoning Failed To Unlock Housing Production in California?
In 2021, California passed Senate Bill 9, ending exclusive single-family zoning. The first numbers have come in on this new law’s impact, and...they're not large numbers. But here's why that's not surprising (nor a cause for alarm). → Read More
There’s No Such Thing as Affordable Housing
Los Angeles lost a hundred thousand affordable homes in a decade. Don’t look to bulldozers to explain how. → Read More
There is Unrest in the Urban Forest
The truth is that high urban density and abundant housing are entirely compatible with a lush tree canopy. → Read More
How Far Would You Go to Make Your Community Safer?
What if you had free rein to do the things you know need to be done to fix your neighborhood street? → Read More
Our Self-Imposed Scarcity of Nice Places
The public investment required to urbanism offers a 60% savings over suburbia. Urbanism is substantially cheaper to build than suburbia. → Read More
Fixing Finance for Small-Scale Development
For most small-scale developers, capital is a significant barrier to doing small infill projects. But that isn't because the money isn't there to be had. → Read More
Where Did All the Small Developers Go?
We need people who will build in the places where big, corporate developers won’t. But how do we get enough small-scale developers back to make a difference? → Read More
Cleaning My Swimming Pool Is Like Building
Cities are complex systems…and maintaining a healthy system in a stable equilibrium is relatively easy. But restoring an unhealthy system back to equilibrium is very hard. → Read More
Walkability and the culture wars
Even if you do take this study's results at face value, it's a stretch to sa its major takeaway is most Americans don't want walkable places → Read More
Landlords Are Not Developers (and Vice Versa)
Conflating the one with the other keeps us from understanding the housing market in a coherent way. Here’s why. → Read More
The State Fair Parking Lottery
What a million-person festival and an experiment in pop-up entrepreneurship teach us about the incoherence of parking policy. → Read More
Is This the Future of Civic Engagement?
Gordon says that there are no shortcuts around the amount of work involved in this model of community engagement. → Read More
How to Solve a Parking Problem Without Breaking the Bank
If you’ve got a parking shortage in your downtown, consider this unique, cost-effective solution: a valet service. → Read More
Leaving Value on the Table
Why do large-scale developers bother making cool mockups for their spaces, only to end up with a bland end product? → Read More
Transit Agencies Venture Into Real Estate—But Why Weren't They Already?
Budget shortfalls are pressuring transit agencies to do what they should’ve been doing all along: put to productive use the land they own around their stations. → Read More
Will 2021 Be the Year Zoning Reform Reaches Critical Mass?
Something remarkable is happening this year in City Halls across America. → Read More
Want to Change the Way Our World is Built? You Won't Do it by Fighting a Culture War.
We won’t end the Suburban Experiment by denying that people enjoy living in the suburbs…or by telling them they shouldn’t enjoy it. → Read More
We Don't Live in a World of Cartoon Villains
We wield our empathy more like a spotlight, which illuminates the object of its attention, but leaves everything else in darkness → Read More
Press One Key to Fix Your City's Parking Policy —
We humbly propose a better approach to parking policy than years of studies and focus groups. → Read More
Incremental Doesn't Mean Slow —
Incremental change doesn’t mean slow change. In fact, unleashing the power of the many to make small changes in response to immediate needs may be the only approach that is up to the scale of the problems our cities face. → Read More