Women Shaping Seattle: An Interview With Barbara Swift
Barbara Swift, FASLA, founded Swift Company in 1982. Swift Company is a landscape architecture and urban design practice dedicated to creating powerful places for civic...
City Council Extends ALUV Moratorium, Designates Rainier Opportunity Zone, and Greenlights Arena
On Monday, the Seattle City Council waded through a very lengthy agenda. Councilmembers voted to extend a heavy industrial moratorium in Aurora-Licton Urban Village...
Sunday Video: How To Design Streets For Everyone
https://youtu.be/8mh-GTlvf0w
Dave Amos talks about how the principle of universal design as applied to street design can make streets better for all users.
The Urbanist Podcast: Architectural Scrabble with Mike Eliason of Larch Lab
As founder of Larch Lab, a design studio and think tank devoted to climate adaptive architecture and urbanism, Mike Eliason holds a wealth of...
Fridaygram: Urban Design The Whistler Way
“The trust of a city street is formed over time from many, many little public sidewalk contacts”
―Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great...
Belltown Group Tries to Block Taller Buildings Downtown Over Birds
To prevent a 19-story apartment building long in the works, a group of Belltown residents are trying to stop code updates to Seattle's Living Building pilot program. The purported risk of bird deaths headline the group's laundry list of concerns.
Call to Action: Support Rezoning Uptown and Reforming Design Review on Monday
The Seattle City Council is hosting a double feature at SIFF Cinema Uptown Auditorium 3 on Monday September 11. The first public hearing for the...
Sunday Video: German Pedestrianized Streets
https://youtu.be/Vl02v7bzIYc
Several streets in Iserlohn, Germany are highlighted in this video as fußgängerzonen (pedestrian streets), a street typology severely lacking in America.