Rainier Beach Updates Its Neighborhood Plan
The Seattle City Council passed a Rainier Beach Neighborhood Plan Update, among many other things at a busy September 26th meeting. The plan focuses...
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...
Op-Ed: State Model Code Could Give Middle Housing a Shot
In House Bill 1110, the Washington State Legislature read the will of the people and demanded that we tackle the housing crisis more proactively...
Fixing Seattle’s Design Review Process
A working group has spent a year analyzing Seattle's design review process. Here are their suggestions for improvement.
When most new mixed-use, multifamily, and...
Improvements to Seattle’s Design Review Program
The Department of Planning and Development (DPD) is engaging with stakeholders and residents to develop improvements for the City's Design Review Program. In 1994,...
Co-Living: How Will Seattle’s Development Boom Respond to a Growing Desire for Shared Spaces?
From mega developments like the Collective in London, to more boutique spaces like Euclid Manor in Oakland, co-living is increasing its influence on housing...
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.
Rooftop Solar Can Power Seattle
Known for its dearth of sunshine, Seattle is not commonly considered a city ripe for residential solar power, also known as solar photovoltaic energy,...