Doug Trumm
Doug Trumm is publisher of The Urbanist. An Urbanist writer since 2015, he dreams of pedestrian streets, bus lanes, and a mass-timber building spree to end our housing crisis. He graduated from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington in 2019. He lives in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood and loves to explore the city by foot and by bike.
However agency leaders displayed hesitancy to inconvenience cars to build transit more efficiently.
On Thursday, the Sound Transit Board pressed the agency's heads of corridor...
Mayor Bruce Harrell and Amazon have pushed to add a last-minute alternative for Ballard Link light rail that would drop a proposed station in...
If journalism is the lifeblood of our democracy, then why does it feel like its chronically on life support?
The journalism industry is in rough...
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On Wednesday June 14, candidates for the District 1 Seattle City Council seat faced off in a mobility-focused forum co-hosted by The Urbanist. Phil...
On Saturday, seven of the nine registered District 3 Seattle City Council candidates participated in a mobility-focused forum co-hosted by The Urbanist. As in...
Social housing is popular in Seattle -- so popular it even seems to override concerns about appropriate building scale and amorphous "neighborhood character." To...
The Seattle City Council candidates in District 5 squared off in a mobility forum co-hosted by The Urbanist on June 5. Candidates had broad...