Shared Air

The horsepower of positive thinking? Today, we push up to Caroline County, home of Secretariat, and into Southside to meet Junie Donlavey, Stock Car legend. Two examples of risk and reward that defy convention and (re)define, yet again, what matters and what’s possible. Over the next week, we’re gonna begin to draw these images into [...]

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“Worth A Thousand Words” the picture notes.
Kudos to those “who care about our city” and their efforts to build better communities.  Inspired by a similar effort in Baltimore, Richmond Slumlord Watch aims to “transform notoriety into accountability” by highlighting
blighted properties, delinquent property owners, and issues relevant to blight, slumlords, and neighborhood revitalization in the City [...]

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Each fall since 9-11, the insanity of humanity witnessed by our regional community, and country, has forced a change, or shift, from our previous understanding of what’s “normal” and decent and right.
With the 2001 terrorist attacks and anthrax scares, the I-95 serial snipers in ‘02, Isabel ‘03, Gaston ‘04, Katrina ‘05 and repeat Rita ‘06 [...]

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“Paying the meter of a parking space enables one to lease precious urban real estate on a short-term basis. What is the range of possible activities for this short-term lease?”

PARK(ing) Day is Friday September 18, 2009.
Born out of Rebar’s creative exploration for how urban public space is allocated and used, PARK(ing) Day has become an [...]

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Hi all.  A big aspect of Shared Air is an emphasis on the Sharing part. Truth be told, as much as many of us, self included, might think of ourselves as gregarious or altruistic  progressive thinkers and doers it’s depressing sometimes to see how little of ourselves and our ideas we’re willing to share – [...]

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