Monthly Archives: May 2018
DEIS Shows Options and Urgency of Pending Backyard Cottage Reform
Seattle, a city of 348,000 homes, has built just 579 backyard cottages since 1994, the year the region also enacted an urban growth boundary...
Vote For Seattle’s Worst Intersection: 2018 (Round 1)
The nominees are in and it's time to vote for the Worst Intersection in Seattle.
Now in its 6th year, the competition has expanded from...
Seattle’s Sidewalk Plans Are Up in the Air with Levy Reset
Seattle's system of sidewalks are worth an estimated $5.6 billion dollars, making them an asset with few equals on the city's ledgers. But Seattle...
Sunday Video: Design For Inclusive Public Life
https://youtu.be/h5u7GuMRw_Q
How do we design for inclusive urban public spaces and life? Jeff Risom from Gehl explains this paradigm.
What We’re Reading: Free the Transit, Pedestrianizing Lower Manhattan, and Dutch...
Free the transit: Paris could be on the way to having the largest urban fare-free public transit zone in the world while Estonia will go fare-free...
Rockin’ the In-Between
The sensation was that of riding on air, a wave of euphoria whose origin I could hardly trace.
I told them about the reroute. This...
Forward Thrust Part 3: Big League City
The disappointment that urbanists feel about Seattle’s failure to obtain a subway system in 1968 (see part one and part two of the Forward Thrust series)...
Leary Ave NW in Central Ballard Is A Little Safer
The confluence of three streets in the heart of Ballard has long been a community concern. Technically a five-way intersection, Leary Ave NW meets...