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Monthly Archives: November 2014

Sunday Video: Urban Solutions from Vancouver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl6SOY2gI5U Discovery Waterfront Cities of the World: Vancouver by jsnspringer on YouTube, h/t Catherine Neill. A great video by Discovery on urbanism in Vancouver, BC, which talks...

What We’re Reading: No Downtown School

No Downtown school: Seattle Public Schools bails out on an opportunity to pick up a Downtown property for a new elementary. Breaking records: The Fremont Bridge...

Housing, politics and a basic pride of place

Fifth in an illustrated series about place-decoding from the South of France. What do the politics of urban housing have to do with a seasonal...

What will change when Link comes to Capitol Hill and the...

What will change when Link comes to Capitol Hill and the UW? This is the question that Sound Transit and King County Metro are starting...

Not an Impulse

  Triangle Park, across from the Frye--the very same "it's-not-the-Frye-unless-there's-an-ambulance-out-front"--right in the heart of upper Pioneer Square, is not known for harboring commuters with an...

12 Photos from Iceland: Streets Done Right

Iceland takes pride in robust and modern street infrastructure techniques. To anyone who has been to Europe or elsewhere abroad, much of this will...

Tweet of the Week: Lunchtime Streets

San Francisco is putting many of its smaller streets to better use with a people-focus. As you can see from Will's tweet, San Francisco...

Ballard Urban Design Framework Meeting Tomorrow

Image: Preliminary schematic of a Market Street and 17th Avenue subway station (Sound Transit's Corridor D) in Central Ballard. Just a reminder that this Thursday (November...