Yearly Archives: 2015

2015 Seattle City Council Election, District 5: Halei Watkins Interview

Article Note: The Urbanist is publishing a series of interviews with a selection of 2015 Seattle City Council candidates. In June, we will release our endorsements. Halei Watkins...

Driverless Technology: Still Not Ready For The Future City

It wasn't until the last two centuries that the advancement in mobility really took off globally. Before then, the mainstay of fast land-based mobility was the...

2015 Seattle City Council Election, District 5: Sandy Brown Interview

Article Note: The Urbanist is publishing a series of interviews with a selection of 2015 Seattle City Council candidates. In June, we will release...

Redevelopable Capacity: Disguising Correlation As Causation

In a previous article, I responded to Dan Bertolet's rebuttal of my essay outlining why urbanists must support linkage fees. My primary argument, that land is inelastic, means that...

2015 Seattle City Council Election, District 1: Brianna Thomas Interview

Article Note: The Urbanist is publishing a series of interviews with a selection of 2015 Seattle City Council candidates. In June, we will release...

She Did It on a Monday

  I pause at inbound Henderson, waiting for an indecisive runner. Why am I irritated? What is this rushing stress which bubbles inside of me...

2015 Seattle City Council Election, District 6: Mike O’Brien Interview

Article Note: The Urbanist is publishing a series of interviews with a selection of 2015 Seattle City Council candidates. In June, we will release...

Repeating The Case For Inelastic Land Supply

A month ago, I made the case for why urbanists must support linkage fees. In response, Dan Bertolet at Smart Growth Seattle argued that linkage fees...