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The Friendly City Urbanist

Brent Finnegan

A newsletter about land use, housing, transportation, and climate policy in Harrisonburg, the Shenandoah Valley, and beyond. Currently living in the Netherlands, enrolled in the Global Urban Transformations Master's program at Utrecht University.

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Latest Issues

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The Shortline 2-20-26

An intersection in downtown Harrisonburg where one of 30 Flock cameras in the city is mounted to the mast arm of a traffic light.

12 days ago
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Lessons we can learn from unintentional urbanism

In Utrecht there is no shortage of examples of thoughtful urban design. I regularly commute on the city’s many fietstraats, and appreciate the way city planners and traffic engineers have made biking, walking, and taking public transportati...

19 days ago
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The Shortline 1-23-26

Snow extends several feet from the curb at the intersection of Market and Liberty (Jan. 2025)

a month ago
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Living car-lite in Harrisonburg and car-free in Utrecht

When I joined the Harrisonburg Planning Commission in 2016 I was living downtown and driving to most destinations that weren’t within a four-block radius of my apartment. Having lived my entire life up to that point in a motonormative conte...

2 months ago
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  • Brent Finnegan

    Posts about the intersection of climate, housing, and transportation with a focus on land use in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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