Shows
Go Cultivate!Meet the Verdooners — with Tim WrightTim Wright's work spans the gamut from missing middle housing to incremental development and infrastructure right-sizing. He has been an engineer on the kinds of projects that can transform a place into a more sustainable, connected community. Hailing from the great state of Louisiana (Shreveport to be exact) and proudly lacking on sleep (as he's a brand new dad), Tim is an integral part of the team here at Verdunity. Tim is also the founder of Re:Form Shreveport, an organization that is working to improve the city of Shreveport by fostering deep community connections and volunteerism, locally.
2022-12-1516 min
Go Cultivate!21 – The favorites episode!It's a full house on the podcast today. Felix Landry, Tim Wright, and Kevin Shepherd join Jordan to talk about our favorite reads and listens from the year.
Here are links to the stuff we talked about in the show:
Tim's picks:
There’s a missing middle for commercial spaces, too – Kevin Klinkenberg, The Messy City
What’s Up with All Those Empty Commercial Storefronts in New Mixed-Use Developments? – Rachel Quednau, Strong Towns
Podcast: Typology with Ian Morgan Cron (We also discuss his book The Road Back to You)
Felix's picks:
Building Jerusale...
2019-01-101h 09
Go Cultivate!20 – Building a culture of engagement and trust, with Re:Form ShreveportIn this episode, Jordan speaks with Tim Wright, Levette Fuller, Luke Lee, and Chris Lyon of Re:Form Shreveport. We discuss how they are building a more trusting relationship between the people of Shreveport and City staff and officials, why and how to avoid a "criticize-first" mentality, lessons for city governments on embracing neighborhood-led change (or co-creation) instead of top-down planning, the role of local business, and MUCH more.
If you're a city leader or just a neighbor looking for some inspiration to take action heading into 2019, this chat is a great place to start!
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2019-01-021h 06
Go Cultivate!Let's chat: Neighborhood identity and community involvementWe're trying something new here. The Verdunity office is always buzzing with good discussions about what's on our minds that week. So, instead of keeping them all to ourselves, we'll be dropping short, spur-of-the-moment conversations like this one into the feed from time to time. It might be something we've read that day, an interaction we've had with a community leader, or just something we ate (hopefully not).
Today, Tim Wright (the brand-newest member of Verdunity!) and Jordan Clark chat about neighborhood identity and community involvement.
The Go Cultivate! podcast is a project of your...
2018-10-2425 min
Go Cultivate!06 – How to start a productive conversation in your communityKevin sits down with Tim Wright, co-founder of Re-Form Shreveport, to talk about about the conversations and actions that incrementally help make a community stronger. Tim gives insight into ways to build momentum and trust, through his roles as both a civil engineer and as a neighbor in a new city.
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1:00 – Introducing Tim Wright and Re-Form Shreveport
4:50 – Teasing our involvement in the upcoming Strong Towns Regional Gathering (join us for that!)
13:05 – Beginning of Kevin’s discussion with Tim
15:26 – Why Tim (and Kevin) joined the Strong Towns movement
17:45 –...
2018-09-191h 16