Owen Pickford
Owen is a solutions engineer for a software company. He has an amateur interest in urban policy, focusing on housing. His primary mode is a bicycle but isn't ashamed of riding down the hill and taking the bus back up. Feel free to tweet at him: @pickovven.
On Tuesday, the Planning, Land Use and Sustainability (PLUS) committee passed through legislation that would rezone around the Mt. Baker light rail station. The...
Background
Micro-housing (often referred to as apodments) are small units, which are usually less than 300 square feet in size. They tend to be occupied...
Driving is costly in more way than you might think: Most people don't realize the enormous cost of driving; operation costs are much higher...
Yesterday morning the Census Bureau published a press release titled, "South, West Have Fastest-Growing Cities, Census Bureau Reports; Three of Top 10 are in Texas Capital Area."...
If you are concerned about housing costs, you should know that building a lot more housing will be critical to control or reduce costs. We...
Strava Labs is an online community of athletes that is collecting data about activities one person at a time. You can sign up for...
Cul-de-sac's literal translation means "bottom of the bag." Book available for purchase online.
Many of you probably know that we have a weekly Tuesday meeting at Roy...
On May 7th at 7pm Ben Ross will be talking about his new book, Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism at...