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Yearly Archives: 2018

Sunday Video: China Is Erasing Its Border With Hong Kong

https://youtu.be/MQyxG4vTyZ8 In this video, Vox looks into the “changing” borders of Hong Kong, a megacity that forms a portion of China but is distinctly independent...

Hard Right to Happy

​It's a waxing gibbous tonight, yellow, a sense of possibilities from high overhead. I'm done for the night– or almost done, seconds away from...

A Walkable Aurora Avenue

You’ve driven down Aurora, but have you ever walked it? Chances are, you haven’t. And nobody would blame you. The street is not designed...

Transit App Upgrades To 5.0

Transit App users will find that the aptly named mobile navigation app has graduated to version 5.0. The milestone version is noticeably different from...

Tacoma: Public Space and Public Life

In my last installment, I pointed out the importance of sidewalks—that they exist and that they are continuous—both because they provide an opportunity for...

Sound Transit Explores Options for Chinatown-International District and SoDo

Soon Seattle will find out what alternatives for the West Seattle and Ballard light rail extensions in Chinatown-International District and SoDo survive the alternatives...

The Full Case for Seattle’s Center City Streetcar

The Urbanist has been banging the drum for following through on long-laid plans to build the Center City Connector to connect Seattle's two orphan...

What We’re Reading: Joy of Play Returns, Still Under Appeal, and...

Unwillingness to perform: What does an anti-transit federal government look like? Joy of play returns: "Risky" playgrounds are making a comeback. Going green: Kroger is ending...