Yearly Archives: 2018
What We’re Reading: CSO Failures, Superblocks, and Historic Lows
Low-cost activation: Why are cities bringing giant games to parks and plazas?
Walkability: What makes a place walkable?
CSO failures: King County has been fined $118,500 since...
Tacoma: Getting To Know My New City Through Walking
I moved to Tacoma the last weekend of July. Even as I got keys to my apartment the day after I arrived, my stuff...
Sunday Video: Barcelona’s Superblocks – Change The Grid, Change Your Neighborhood
https://vimeo.com/282972390
Streetfilms takes a look at what it’s like to live in Barcelona’s vibrant pedestrian-oriented superblocks (superilles).
Bring on the Clusterwohnungen
A few years ago, Seattle ran an interesting experiment on radically densifying low rise neighborhoods with microhousing--a typology of small, minimal units that provide...
City Council Landmarks Key Arena and Grants Greenwood Rezone
On Monday, the Seattle City Council approved a slate of landmarks in Uptown and rezoned a property in Greenwood to facilitate a mixed-use development...
Mass Timber Social Housing on Public Land FTW
This past spring, the Washington State Legislature passed HB 2382 --a bill that allows public agencies to utilize surplus public land for affordable housing development. The...
Everett Transit Delivers A Painful Restructuring Plan; It Doesn’t Have To...
Everett Transit is in the midst of a painful service restructuring planning process. Fresh off its long-range planning effort to develop a path to...
Becoming a Citizen Activist: An Interview with Nick Licata
Former Seattle city council member, Nick Licata is holding a salon on Design and Citizen Activism on August 8th with UW Professor Karen Cheng....