Rubén Casas

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Rubén joined The Urbanist's board in 2022. He is a scholar and teacher of rhetoric and writing at the University of Washington Tacoma. He is also the faculty lead of the Urban Environmental Justice Initiative at Urban@UW. In his work and advocacy, Rubén examines how cities and the institutions that comprise them imagine, plan, and build in ways that promote and/or discourage community and a sense of place.
In my last installment, I pointed out the importance of sidewalks—that they exist and that they are continuous—both because they provide an opportunity for...
I moved to Tacoma the last weekend of July. Even as I got keys to my apartment the day after I arrived, my stuff...