Every other month, we host Ask Strong Towns, a live webcast in which you can ask anything you want of our founder and president, Chuck Marohn, and our communications director, Kea Wilson.

Some questions ask for the Strong Towns take on a pressing issue; others ask us to dig deep into a complex topic. However, all of your questions challenge us to do two things: embrace the complexity of what makes a financially resilient town—something we recognize cannot be reduced to one-size-fits-all prescriptions—while distilling some advice or ways of thinking about a topic to a level that anyone can understand.

That’s why, in this week’s addition to the Knowledge Base, we’ve created video articles that answer two compelling questions from reader and members:

Are there strategies to plant new street trees while protecting the underground utility infrastructure?

How does a land value tax work in predominantly rural areas?

Street Trees and Infrastructure

In this video, Strong Towns president and founder Chuck Marohn discusses the cost vs. benefit of street trees—and how it can reshape how engineers (and everyone) perceive them, including: