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.
CityNerd dives into the convoluted and admittedly depressing topic of car crashes. In the video, CityNerd looks into the disturbing pedestrian fatality trends, implications...
This week's Transpo Notes roundup looks into Link light rail project timeline shifts due to labor disputes, restarts of the RapidRide R and K...
Dave Amos at City Beautiful looks at how American and European zoning differs and how that has led to very different spatial outcomes. There...
This week's Transpo Notes is a roundup of safety audit recommendations for King County Metro, King Street Station improvements for Sounder, RapidRide H Line...
Build housing: Previous contributor to The Urbanist Ron Davis says that the only way to solve homelessness is to build more homes.
TOD WMATA: Washington,...
With pandemic and explosion in work from home, many have started to question what the future of transit is, especially as the promise of...
Many transit agencies in the United States provide only lifeline transit or overly fixate on commuter services. But good public transportation is frequent and...
CityNerd ranks the ten best markets in North America and one of Seattle’s makes the list. But could it be better?