Yearly Archives: 2016
Safe Housing Is A Human Right
Seattle, we have a problem. A few dozen or so of our housed neighbors --claiming to represent "thousands" of Seattleites--showed up to the City...
Learning From A One-Stop, Urban Epic–And Why
Spoiler alert: I love epic stories with universal meaning for varied audiences around the world. In sum, that is why I think Jonathan F.P. Rose‘s...
Sunday Video: North King ST3 Investments
Sound Transit has put together some very handy videos about the Sound Transit 3 (ST3) ballot measure. This video dives into what ST3 would...
On The (Bus) Porch
"I din' know you drive up this far," said a woman who usually rides my 7 only when deep within the bowels of the...
What We’re Reading: Sprawling Globe, Peanut Butter And Jelly, And Transformative...
Competing choices: The Stranger covered details of competing Seattle homeless encampment legislation proposals this week. Before the City Council met to speak about the proposals,...
Voice Your Support For The Comp Plan On Monday
The Seattle City Council is expected to vote on the Seattle 2035 Comp Plan at its meeting 2pm Monday (October 17th).
We encourage urbanists to...
Comcast New Data Caps Changing Landscape For Municipal Broadband Prospects
Comcast (Xfinity) announced to their customers via email in Washington and 17 other states that effective November 1st, most broadband Internet plans would be...
Fewer, Better Routes In Pierce Transit Restructure
To date, the pace of local transit service restoration in Tacoma-Pierce County following the Great Recession has been a slow crawl, expanding at roughly...