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.
Have you ever wanted to see where new transit investments are planned or underway in North America? Well now you can. With the help...
A bridge with a view. That's what Everett plans to build later this year. The project is an outgrowth from various utility needs and...
United metropole: Paris has finally unified dozens of suburbs and the city into one unitary body called “Métropole du Grand Paris”; the new body...
Walking and biking rates have been steadily increasing throughout the Puget Sound Region over the past decade, a trend that has been particularly significant in...
Cities and counties throughout the region have been pushing to complete their comprehensive plan updates for the 2035 plan period, a 20-year planning horizon....
The Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) shares a piece of Lake Union's hidden history. Long a place of maritime industry, and now home to new industries and...
The Cascadian Region is formed from its very active, and occasionally violent, natural environment. It's seismically active, floods, has land slides, and sometimes large waves inundate...
This past summer, a draft proposal for rezones within the University District was released by the Seattle Department of Planning and Development (DPD). By and...