Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBottom-Up Shorts: How To Build a Network of Advocates
Episode 158
Hazen Elwood is a student, a member of Strong Towns Calgary (in Alberta, Canada), and a community manager with the organization For the City. Today,…
10 months ago
Justine Underhill: Using Media To Build a Better City
Episode 157
Justine Underhill is an elected city council member in Falls Church, Virginia, and an award-winning video journalist and independent filmmaker. She’s…
10 months, 1 week ago
Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Make a More Walkable City
Episode 156
How do you turn three people with snow shovels into an initiative that gets covered on the news, triggers a city-funded pilot program, and inspires p…
10 months, 1 week ago
Rosaline Hill: Proving the Power of Infill Housing Development
Episode 155
Rosaline Hill is a registered professional planner and awards-winning architect from Ottawa, Canada. She’s consulted on zoning for the city of Ottawa…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Build a Stronger Richmond Hill
Episode 154
In this episode of Bottom Up Shorts, Norm is joined by Saeed Vahid, a Local Conversation leader from Richmond Hill, Ontario. They talk about how he s…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Diane Alisa: How To Restore the American Village
Episode 153
Diane Alisa is an author and founder of the nonprofit End Car Dependency. Her nonprofit helps support families by making it easier to get around safe…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Bottom-Up Shorts: How Normal People Can Make a Big Difference
Episode 152
Daniel Bloemker is a Strong Towns member and Local Conversation leader from Bellingham, Washington. He’s been instrumental in advancing local efforts…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Elizabeth Turman-Bryant: The Bottom Up Path to Local Leadership
Episode 151
Elizabeth Turman-Bryant is a councilmember in Burlington, Washington. She's passionate about community building, revitalizing historical areas, and m…
11 months ago
Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Build Bikeable Streets
Episode 150
Denyse Trepanier is the president of Bike Walk Alameda, a nonprofit organization in the island city of Alameda, California. She joins Norm to discuss…
11 months ago
Doing the Math as a City Council Member
Episode 149
Steven Zittergruen is a city councilor and Strong Towns member from Decorah, Iowa. In this Bottom-Up Short, he joins Norm to discuss the ways he’s ma…
11 months, 1 week ago