Jay Stange

Content Manager at Strong Towns. I put community in communications, transformation in transportation. Pitch me interviews and stories with a Strong Towns approach to creating resilient and adaptable places.

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If You Want People to Use Public Transit, Connect the Places Where People Want to Walk

In a nutshell, many American transit systems are underused not because the cities they serve are too small, but because the places they stop at are places people don’t want to be on foot.

August 23, 2022

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Time for a Little “Self-Gentrification”

Carter’s investment in her community and in developing her personal home across the street from her family home is part of her identity, but is also a wealth-building mechanism, the most common successful method in North America. She wants it for her community: something she calls  “self-gentrifying in the South Bronx.”

January 28, 2022