‘Your City Could Be Better’: Why Are Chattanoogans ‘Doing It Their Damn Selves’? — Presented By City Cast DC
About this episode
The episode discusses how residents of Chattanooga are taking initiative to improve their city through advocacy and community efforts.
Sometimes it can feel like DC is two (or more) steps behind the needs of its neighborhoods. Enter the residents of Chattanooga, Tennessee. What Chattanoogans don’t have, they make up for in advocacy, whether by showing up to city council and organizing for change or just doing things themselves. City Cast CEO David Plotz sits down with creator and city lover Hope Henchey about how she and her neighbors are sneakily and secretly fixing up their city. You’ve heard of the Nashville bench builders — now get ready for the Chattanooga pothole fillers, sidewalk layers, and (literal) trail blazers. Mentioned on the show: Atlas Obscura feature on the community-built benches in Chattanooga Efforts by Strong Chattanooga to make a path through the woods in a sidewalk-less neighborhood Review of Hoboken's streak of zero traffic fatalities Is there something your city is doing that we should be talking about? Email David now! We’re also on Instagram: @yourcitycouldbebetter Looking to advertise on Your City Could Be Better? Check out our options.
People in this episode
Host: David Plotz
Guest: Hope Henchey
Topics covered
- community advocacy
- urban improvement
- local initiatives
- city council
- neighborhood engagement
Keywords
- Chattanooga
- community advocacy
- urban improvement
- David Plotz
- Hope Henchey
- city council
- local initiatives
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: City Cast, Atlas Obscura, Strong Chattanooga
Places: Chattanooga, Tennessee, DC, Hoboken
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