geography

Some years ago, when noted urbanist Richard Florida visited Roanoke, it was a city of just under 100,000

A sign in the parking lot of the small church at 1713 North Main Street prominently displays a maroon and orange number 33 over a VT logo.

From diner breakfast to a jazzy dinner, a travelogue documenting a full day in our favorite one-stoplight town.

The Blacksburg Skate Park is where you go to perfect that kickflip, run a long grind, and stretch some air under that ollie.

The future of Norris Hall as the home of Virginia Tech's new center for peace studies and violence prevention.

Out of the static somewhere between NPR and K92, you'll find the self-touted "Greatest Radio Station in the World"

The roads were muddy when it rained; Stroubles Creek was power when it turned the wheel, and the men inside were laborers when the Mill was just that in times past.

Post Office, drugstore, hotel, soda fountain, restaurant and bar; Where people have worked, lived and passed their time behind these walls.

It's difficult to imagine the land upon which Blacksburg and the Virginia Tech campus are built was like before the a

Paradigm shifts—or wholesale changes in the thinking and practice of a profession or discipline—are as ra