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.
An 1884 cartograph details a growing Seattle as it was at the time. One presenter takes viewers through the map features and history contained...
Red and blue: A brief history of what colors Link Light Rail lines are supposed to be designated as.
Drop in the bucket: Even doubling...
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One project in Interbay embodies how big development can be accomplished at a definitively fine grain and tailored toward the human scale. The proposal...
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At a general legislative session yesterday, the Seattle City Council met to discuss a packed agenda. Topics ranged from the waterfront public space initiative to all-gender...
Have you ever wanted to know the racial diversity of your neighborhood, how your local schools rank, or where development permits have been recently...
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