Sunday Video: Freiburg Is A Lesson In City Building
Freiburg im Breisgau is famous in planning spheres for its high rates of biking, walkable suburbs, and green ways of building. Mike Eliason has...
Sunday Video: The Fake Facades of Paris
https://youtu.be/iXSkjw0Kytk
In Paris, fake building facades are a surprisingly common urban feature to aesthetically hide certain infrastructure.
The Urbanist’s Year in Pictures 2022
An we come upon the last day of the year, a perfect opportunity to look through The Urbanist's media archive for a retrospective of...
Updates to the Pike/Pine Conservation Overlay District
John Feit, President of PPUNC, provided a brief overview of the Pike/Pine Conservation Overlay District. The overlay district deploys an incentive program to encourage building character...
Sunday Video: Most Amazing Metro Stations From Around The World
https://youtu.be/r5qC21x-5AU
Take a gander at 16 amazing metro stations from around the world. This video shows that transit doesn't have to be a bland experience....
CNU25 Workshop: Community-Oriented Housing
About fifty Congress for the New Urbanism conference attendees came together to learn about Community-Oriented Housing on the first full day of CNU25. The workshop,...
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...
Pike Place Expansion is Underway
Construction has begun on the Pike Place Market expansion project, the first addition to the Market in 40 years. Crews broke ground on June...