The Friendly City Urbanist
Brent FinneganA newsletter about land use, housing, transportation, placemaking, and climate policy in Harrisonburg, the Shenandoah Valley, and beyond.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issues | 111 | Subscribers | Read | brentfinnegan.substack.com |
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The Shortline 11-28-25
Happy Black Friday Parking Day to all who observe it. Two years ago I published this piece with photos of parking lots in Harrisonburg on Black Friday morning, demonstrating how overbuilt our parking capacity is on the busiest shopping day ...
The Shortline 11-13-25
The National Zoning Atlas (NZA) recently completed their maps for Virginia. The definitions in every local zoning ordinance are slightly different. This lack of standardization makes zoning notoriously difficult to understand and reform. Th...
The Shortline 9-26-25
It’s been more than a month since my last post here. I may have overestimated the amount of time I’d have to devote to this newsletter. The good news is I’m learning a lot of interesting and useful information very quickly in grad school at...
The move to Utrecht
I don’t write about myself much on this newsletter. That’s intentional. I want this Substack to be about urbanism and Harrisonburg, not me. But the July 9 meeting of the Harrisonburg Planning Commission was my last. This month I left home t...
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