In this Bottom-Up Short, Norm is joined by Christian Schick, a Local Conversation leader from Virginia. His group has built a lot of momentum in the past year, and Schick talks about how they did that in a productive and helpful way, particularly while juggling local elections. (Transcript included.)
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The Growth Ponzi Scheme encourages city governments to take on obligations they can never hope to sustain. Purcellville, Virginia, offers a stark example of where this path leads.
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The evolution of a parking lot in Harrisonburg, Virginia, shows how cities allowing land usage to shift alongside community needs creates more productive and appealing places.
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Alexandria, VA, one of the U.S.’s earliest settled cities, has just eliminated single-family zoning.
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#BlackFridayParking is approaching, and we want to share some of the latest cities in North America that have challenged decades-old parking requirements that have wasted productive land on automobile storage.
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On this episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution, we talk with Barry Greene Jr., an urban journalist and local advocate from the southside neighborhood of Richmond, VA.
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Change has been slower than expected in car-oriented Tysons, Virginia, in the past decade, despite Fairfax Country’s multi-modal goals. But new lower parking minimums for developments around transit could help.
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Downtown Leesburg, Virginia, goes car free for one weekend.
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We’ve explored the outside of Fairfax County’s Eden Center before, but what does the inside of this surprisingly fine-grained strip mall look like?
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North Virginia will make multi-billion dollar decisions this year on the region’s transportation future—decisions that are only going to induce more driving.
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Despite their layouts, these islands of apparent urbanism out in the countryside are a sign that we’re doing something very, very wrong.
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In 2022, denying how highway expansions induce people to drive more should be considered professional malpractice.
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Our walk together continues on Fairfax Boulevard, where we encounter a much different (i.e., less friendly) pedestrian experience.
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Let’s take a walk together down two different streets, and observe what car-oriented places are like from the viewpoint of a pedestrian.
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These photos of Staunton, Virginia, serve as a reminder that the benefits of “urbanism” aren’t limited to big cities.
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Cast your vote! Who should advance to Round 2 in the sixth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
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We need each other. Whether we live in a small town, dense city, or sprawling suburb, we can’t do life alone…or at least not well. How do we resist fragmentation and find the wholeness and community we need to really thrive?
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Richmond, Virginia’s proposed Navy Hill redevelopment would reinvent 10 blocks of the city’s core out of whole cloth, aiming for greatness in one fell swoop. The top-down, master-plan approach to city building is seductive. But it is also fragile.
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