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Author: Aleks Culver

2015 Seattle City Council Election, District 7: Sally Bagshaw Interview

Article Note: The Urbanist is publishing a series of interviews with a selection of 2015 Seattle City Council candidates. In June, we will release...

2015 Seattle City Council Election, District 5: Debora Juarez Interview

Article Note: The Urbanist is publishing a series of interviews with a selection of 2015 Seattle City Council candidates. In June, we will release...

2015 Seattle City Council Election, District 5: Sandy Brown Interview

Article Note: The Urbanist is publishing a series of interviews with a selection of 2015 Seattle City Council candidates. In June, we will release...

Tweet of the Week: Streets for People

This week's tweet is a reminder that language matters. Brent Toderian, Vancouver's former chief planner, writes: https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/555753175827742722 What does it mean for a street to be...

The Price of Market Freedom

I’ve found that many people conflate supply and demand, or price-based resource allocation, with the pseudo-ideal of a libertarian “free market”. Supply and demand is...

Tweet of the Week: “I am traffic.”

https://twitter.com/MikeLindblom/status/545350307316654080 This week's tweet is a refresher course on one of the most basic laws of urbanism. A city is a place with a lot...

Comment of the Day: Boring Charts

One of The Urbanist's contributors made a very good suggestion to Sound Transit last week: @SoundTransit Please bring back these tunnel boring charts for the current tunneling...

Dow Constantine Issues Executive Order: We Need Full Integration of Bus and Rail

Dow Constantine is on fire. The King County Executive, first elected in 2009, made the headlines on Tuesday for vetoing Councilmember Rod Dembowski's proposal...