Yearly Archives: 2014

Improving the Grid in Capitol Hill

Residential, woonerf. Attributed to: La Citta Vita - license - original Over the past few years, the southern section of Manhattan's Broadway has steadily transformed from a major vehicle arterial into a...
Pedestrian Retail Areas

Pedestrian Retail Areas

Great cities have active pedestrian-oriented retail areas, and Seattle has many. Could we use more? I think so, and Seattle Department of Planning and...

Amad, iPads, and Customer Service

Read more stories form the road at www.nathanvass.com. It's that kid again, the one with the observant eyes. I've had a chance or two to...

The Bigger Picture of Viaduct Traffic

This past week saw a new plot twist in the Bertha tragicomedy: vehicle traffic is way down on the Alaskan Way Viaduct, from 110,000...

5 Cities And Their Housing Cost Solutions

Next City's article "Five Extreme Models to Combat High Rent" is an interesting read simply because it lays out solutions to housing price problems that have actually...

Your Housing Is More Expensive If You Have To Own A...

One of the biggest pleasures I get out of living in a city is that I don't have to own a car. Cars can...

To Achieve Mayor Murray’s Goal, Stop Tunneling

Yesterday, in Mayor Murray's first state of the city speech, he touts downtown's low single occupancy mode share (page 10) - fewer than half of...
Seattle 2035

Seattle 2035 Open House

Seattle is in the midst of its update to the city’s comprehensive plan, dubbed “Seattle 2035“. Washington State’s Growth Management Act requires that cities...