Stephen Fesler
Stephen is a professional urban planner in Puget Sound with a passion for sustainable, livable, and diverse cities. He is especially interested in how policies, regulations, and programs can promote positive outcomes for communities. With stints in great cities like Bellingham and Cork, Stephen currently lives in Seattle. He primarily covers land use and transportation issues and has been with The Urbanist since 2014.
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Have you ever wondered how urban stormwater and sewer systems in cities work? Dave Amos walks through the history of these systems and the...
LRT saved: Phoenix voters defeated a Koch-backed effort to block light rail expansion in the city, ensuring that projects will continue moving forward.
At risk...
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Prisons in America are usually designed for efficiency and to reinforce punishment by design, but their outcomes are often very poor for inmates and...
For three weekends this fall, Sound Transit will fully close light rail stations in Downtown Seattle to prepare for the Connect 2020 project, the...
Heat islands: India's cities are becoming urban heat islands.
Highway removal: There isn't much left of the viaduct, but take a peek at its demise.
Protected...
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Dave Amos charts the American change from connected grids to the rise of cul-de-sacs, and what’s now being done to counteract their pitfalls.
Sound Transit plans to spend about $10 million on transit access projects per subarea. A total of five subareas existing within the Sound Transit...
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In this Vox episode of Almanac, Phil Edwards explains why so many suburbs look the same. Principally, the advent of federal financing, the cul-de-sac,...