Yearly Archives: 2015

Sunday Video: Chicago Launches First Architecture Biennial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heOuwXh0mAQ The inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial launched yesterday, with three months of events, including lectures, workshops, tours, exhibitions, performances, film screenings and social activities. Titled...

What We’re Reading: Transit Prevents Sprawl

Trading spaces: Antioch University is selling its Belltown location and trading in on a new lease with local developer Martin Selig in Downtown. Craigslist crisis:...

Fridaygram: Observations of Local Urbanism in Portland

Portland is awash in more than just craft beer. It's a mecca of Pacific Northwest urbanism. The look and feel of Portland is very noticeably...

HALA Hearing on Commercial Linkage Fees and Upzones

The Seattle City Council held a public meeting this week regarding the commercial linkage fee and upzone proposals from the Housing Affordability and Livability...

How Seattle’s Mandatory Affordable Housing Program Will Work

The Seattle City Council is considering a mandatory affordable housing program linked to commercial developments. The program is no longer just a commercial "linkage...

2015 General Election Endorsements

The general election is just a month away. We've whittled down our choices for City Council from 47 (!) to 18 candidates, but only nine...

With a Little Help From Our Friends

We arrive twenty minutes late at the food bank on Rainer. It's just closed. A streetwise couple hoping to go there steps off, dejected...

Seattle’s Aurora Bridge Needs a Safety Redesign

The crash scene on Thursday morning. (KOMO News)On Thursday morning, a tragic crash on Seattle's Aurora Bridge between an amphibious Ride The Ducks tour...