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All Episodes

The Bottom-Up Revolution — 120 episodes

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Your City Said It Wants Public Input, Now What?

2

The Vacancy Problem Artists Can Help Solve

3

Can Your City Answer This Sidewalk Question?

4

Could These Parking Spaces Be Homes?

5

A Student-Built Map Exposing New York's Worst Landlords

6

What Pickleball Revealed in a Rural Town

7

Running for Office Without a Political Background

8

The Housing Choices Cities Are Missing

9

Strong Towns and the Art of Repair

10

The First Strong Towns Member

11

Building Community On Church Land Again

12

The Lane That Kept Bringing Crashes

13

Small‑Town Housing, Big Feelings

14

Students Who Got a Sidewalk Built in 14 Days

15

Listening Your Way Into Local Change

16

Spokane, Washington Is Betting on Buses, Benches, and Fourplexes

17

When a Tornado Hit Main Street

18

The Missing Middle Has a Missing Industry

19

Rerun: Breaking Down Barriers to Local Food

20

Walk Your Neighborhood Like Jane Jacobs

21

Can Safer Streets Start With a Video Game?

22

Lancaster’s Locals, Newcomers, and Streets Working Together

23

Why Public Spaces Fail After the Ribbon Cutting

24

Ohio’s Traffic Granny Takes On Dangerous Neighborhood Streets

25

Rethinking New Neighborhoods Between Big Plans And Incremental Change

26

Becoming the Sidewalk Lady in Athens Ohio

27

Defying Deficit Narratives with Youth Pilot Projects

28

Tree Canopies, Safe Speeds, and a Council Seat

29

Why Cities Need Community Led Crash Analysis Studios

30

Restarting a Strong Towns Local Conversation

31

Inside West Allis's Playbook for Stronger Local Economies

32

From Parklets To Pilots, Sheboygan Reclaims Its Streets

33

From ADUs To Improv Chicago Builds Stronger Streets

34

How Madison Turned Small Experiments Into Safer Streets

35

Building Community With The Neighbors You Already Have

36

How Vibrant Lafayette Organizes Parents for Safer Streets

37

Starting Where You Stand: The Great Raleigh Cleanup Story

38

What Jasper Teaches Us About Beating Mega Projects

39

Building Culture Around Beauty, Craft, And Daily Life

40

How One Front Yard Became a Neighborhood Pop Up

41

From Empty Lots to Budget Gaps: Mapping Portland

42

From Biostatistics to Better Streets in Fayetteville

43

How One Tiny House Helped Shift Boise’s Housing Rules

44

Walking, Visibility, And One Mom’s Fight For Safer Streets

45

How One Ballot Initiative Could Legalize Affordable Starter Homes

46

How Do You Build Safe Streets in Car-Dependent Places?

47

How Floor Plans Drive Families from Cities (and What Helps Them Stay)

48

Bringing the Strong Towns Conversation to a Growing City

49

Is Crowdfunding A Good Way To Fund Local Projects?

50

The Best Street Safety Win Is One Nobody Notices

51

Can Free Range Parenting Work in the Modern City?

52

How To Avoid Burnout by Bringing Joy Into Your Advocacy

53

How Small Projects Can Expose Big City Problems

54

How Love of Place Grows Into Community Leadership

55

How a One-Stop Website Could Help Beat the Housing Crisis

56

Small Wins, Big Transformations: Introducing Mary Kate Norton

57

How To Get Local Businesses On Board With Street Safety

58

How a Georgia City Made Missing Middle Housing Legal

59

How Bike Buses and Walkable Streets Help Kids Thrive

60

The Money Angle: How To Win Over Skeptics

61

How To Activate Volunteers and Build Trust at the Neighborhood Level

62

How To Turn Public Data Into Stories That Drive Change

63

How To Design Urban Places That People Love

64

What 50 Interviews Taught Me About Community Action

65

How to Talk About Street Safety So People Actually Listen

66

How to Turn Small Community Actions Into a Big Impact

67

How To Convince Your City To Embrace Tactical Urbanism

68

How To Reclaim Dignity and Safety for Nondrivers

69

How To Run for Office at 24 — and Win Support

70

How To Make Starting a Small Business Easy and Cheap

71

How One Bus Driver Is Inspiring Safer Streets

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How To Fight a Highway Project — and Actually Win

73

How To Bring More Affordable Housing Options to Colorado

74

How Permaculture Design Principles Can Make Cities More Resilient

75

How Strategic Boldness Transformed Santa Fe’s Transportation Plan

76

How To Run for City Council as a Self-Taught Advocate

77

How To Live & Grow Wisely in the Utah Desert

78

How To Bring Community Projects to Life Quickly and Effectively

79

How 296 Strong Towns Advocacy Groups Are Changing the World

80

How To Build Community Wealth From the Bottom Up

81

Building Safe Streets for All in Brighton, New York

82

The Lost Art of Crafting Great Urban Places

83

How a Walk Audit Can Build Community and Momentum

84

How Will Gardner Is Helping Build a Stronger South Coast

85

Adding Third Places To Unlock a Small Town’s Potential

86

Fighting for Safe Streets in America’s Most Dangerous City

87

The Young Voice Shaping Salt Lake City's Future

88

How Taking a Walk Can Make Your City Stronger

89

This Is Local Leadership Without the Ego

90

Beating the Loneliness Epidemic, One Step at a Time

91

How To Use Property Taxes to Clean Up Your Community

92

Will This Transportation System Be More Popular Than Cars?

93

Courtyard Urbanism: The Best of Both City and Suburb

94

This City Councilor Is Making Cambridge Safer and More Affordable

95

Bottom-Up Shorts: One Soldier’s Stand for Safer Streets

96

How Community Gardens Can Make Cities Stronger

97

Bottom-Up Shorts: Giving People Better Transportation Options

98

Brandi Thompson: Driving Change Through Civic Empowerment

99

Alyssa Lee & Kay Crumb: How To Build a Thriving Advocacy Group

100

Craig Cassar: How To Take a Holistic Approach to City Building

101

Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Remove Barriers to Good Housing Development

102

Eric Higbee: How to Master the Art of Community Engagement

103

Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Encourage Smart, Financially Strong Development

104

Dr. Patricia Tice: Why Social Interaction Should Influence City Planning

105

Mr. Barricade: How to Quick Build a Connected City

106

Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Humbly Observe Where People Struggle

107

Noah Roth: How Animation Can Build Strong Cities

108

Bottom-Up Shorts: How State Governments Can Foster Strong Towns

109

Rachel Leonardo: How Social Media Builds Collaboration and Great Places

110

Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Build a Network of Advocates

111

Justine Underhill: Using Media To Build a Better City

112

Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Make a More Walkable City

113

Rosaline Hill: Proving the Power of Infill Housing Development

114

Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Build a Stronger Richmond Hill

115

Diane Alisa: How To Restore the American Village

116

Bottom-Up Shorts: How Normal People Can Make a Big Difference

117

Elizabeth Turman-Bryant: The Bottom Up Path to Local Leadership

118

Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Build Bikeable Streets

119

Doing the Math as a City Council Member

120

Will McCollum: How To Design Prosperous Places