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.
Progressive leadership: For the first time, Democrats have formed a majority on Philadelphia's regional transit agency.
LRT in Kent: Light rail construction in Kent begins...
On Thursday, the Sound Transit Board of Directors met to decide on the fate of more than a dozen paused capital project actions. Nine...
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Bloomberg QuickTake documents the history of Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood (also known as Black Wall Street), a Black district, which fell victim to angry mobs...
Fares are coming back to King County Metro buses in October. The agency has been busy putting September service changes into effect and rolling...
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In this video, Vox highlights a Sankey diagram that shows where all of America's carbon emissions come, which can inform how the country should...
Structurally opposed to cities: The United States Senate is structurally set up against urban areas and in particularly large cities, effectively giving a third...
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A Proterra executive talks about the future of electrifying transit buses.
Accessory dwelling unit (ADU) reform has been taking off across the Puget Sound region. Seattle, Tacoma, and Burien all approved sweeping changes to ADUs...