The Bottom-Up Revolution

Students Who Got a Sidewalk Built in 14 Days


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Evan Clark and Natalie Eger are college students studying sociology in Lexington, Virginia, and they came back from the 2025 National Gathering in Providence, RI fired up to do something. In the past year they've built a thriving local conversation group, turned a city council member into a regular at their monthly meetings, and had a broken sidewalk fixed fourteen days after they flagged it. They walk through how they started from scratch, made real change at the local level, and kept people showing up month after month.

ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES
  • Strong Towns Lexington Introduces Community Planning Initiative to City Council (Article)
  • Strong Towns Lexington (Site, Instagram)
  • Evan Clark (LinkedIn)
  • Natalie Eger (LinkedIn)
  • Norm Van Eeden Petersman (LinkedIn)
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