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Monthly Archives: November 2015

Community Transit to Add New Service in March 2016

Community Transit is set to make service improvements to the local and commuter bus network in March 2016. This comes on the heels of...

Sunday Video: Urbanized

"Cities are always the physical manifestation of the big forces at play. Economic forces. Social forces. Environmental forces." That's just one tidbit from Urbanized, a...

What We’re Reading: The Northeast Corridor

The green campus: Cornell University in New York City is going deep into new campus building using Passivhaus technology. Community vibrancy: The connection between dense, compact...

Thanks Giving (I Like Peanuts!)

"I don't have a transfer...," says this sullen brother, trailing off into awkward silence. A lanky dark-skinned fellow about my age, maybe a few...

Tukwila Makes Targeted Transit and Pedestrian Improvements Near Southcenter

The City of Tukwila has delivered a series of pedestrian and transit facility improvements near Westfield Southcenter, a major regional shopping mall. The bulk of the...

Woonerf Watch: Capitol Hill Edition

A street improvement project that is about to start construction this winter on Capitol Hill might take a lot of people by surprise, mostly...

Highway Mission Creep

Last week, I wrote about the progress of the highway funding bill through Congress. A few politicians—Marco Rubio, John Kasich and Rick Santorum—don't want...

Sunday Video: Look Up Film Challenge

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently invited filmmakers and architects to create short films to inspire people to "look up" to appreciate architecture...