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.
Seattle is going all in on Vision Zero, the City's campaign to eliminate serious injury and traffic deaths on City streets by 2030, with...
The Seattle City Council is setting an important agenda on the City's upcoming budget. There's a lot of important issues that Council will sink...
Tarmac, a British company, shows just how much water their permeable concrete can absorb. Using mixer truck, 4,000 liters of water are sucked through...
Bay Area boondoggle: How the Bay Bridge went from $250 million to $6.5 billion. Sound familiar?
New again and again: Over at ATL Urbanist, Darin writes...
Happy birthday to Pronto! Boy does time fly. Seattle's bike share turns one today and there's a lot to celebrate. In Pronto's first year,...
The City of Pittsburgh talks about the intricate relationship of transportation and land use planning by focusing on the revitalizing "Strip District." They share...
Differing opinions: Council district elections are in full swing in Seattle. This week, Debora Juarez and Sandy Brown went head-to-head with dueling proposals on...
At the top of the agenda on Monday, the City Council discussed a resolution (Resolution 31611) on the SR-520 highway rebuild from Montlake to...