Yearly Archives: 2018
City Council Greenlights Seattle Asian Art Museum Expansion
The Seattle Asian Art Museum expansion and rehabilitation project cleared a major hurdle on Monday. During their normal weekly meeting, the Seattle City Council...
Amazon Whittles the HQ2 Competition Down to 20
Last week Amazon announced progress on locating its second headquarters: 238 applicants have been whittled down to 20 finalists. The top 20 offer some...
Top Urbanist Action: Tell PSRC How to Spend Millions on Bikes...
Help influence $17.5 million in transportation spending: The Puget Sound Regional Council is planning to dole out $17.5 million for pedestrian and bike grants....
Community Transit Adds Queue Jump on 128th St SW in South...
Community Transit has completed work on a new queue jump designed to speed buses across an overpass crossing I-5. The queue jump is located...
What We’re Reading: Lost Affordable Housing, Midtown Center, and Hostile Street...
Failure to asset: How Toronto turned an airport rail failure into a commuter asset.
Lost affordabel housing: The Republican tax bill will lead to poor...
Sunday Video: 2017 Year in Review for California High-Speed Rail
https://youtu.be/XaSPNUXx478
In 2017, the California High-Speed Rail Authority had a successful year of on-the-ground construction throughout the Central Valley. In this vidoe, the agency takes...
Dominique the Mystique
"I been on your bus once before. You were hella cool for some reason," he mused, fingering in a few more coins at the...
The Crisis of Late Capitalism in Seattle
The early 1800’s were terrible times to be a British peasant. Parliament had been steadily granting landlords’ requests for enclosure since the 1500s, fencing...