Seattle Design Festival Offers a Variety of Free Events
The Seattle Design Festival, sponsored by Design in Public, is moving into its first full week of events, including many related to urban design,...
In Praise of Dumb Boxes
One of the more, ummm, interesting complaints about new buildings is that they are "too boxy"--as if their form is somehow foreign and boxy...
City Council Saves The Showbox, Vacates ROW, and Sets Move Seattle Levy Process
On Monday, the Seattle City Council temporarily expanded the Pike Place Market Historic District, effectively saving the Showbox for now. The reprieve doesn't guarantee...
Bring on the Clusterwohnungen
A few years ago, Seattle ran an interesting experiment on radically densifying low rise neighborhoods with microhousing--a typology of small, minimal units that provide...
City Council Landmarks Key Arena and Grants Greenwood Rezone
On Monday, the Seattle City Council approved a slate of landmarks in Uptown and rezoned a property in Greenwood to facilitate a mixed-use development...
Mass Timber Social Housing on Public Land FTW
This past spring, the Washington State Legislature passed HB 2382 --a bill that allows public agencies to utilize surplus public land for affordable housing development. The...
Africatown Designs Its Future: Part 1
A year has passed since Africatown Community Land Trust acquired a twenty percent ownership stake of the land parcel at 23rd and Union in...
Three More Highrises Sprouting in the U District
A few months back The Urbanist wrote about The M, the first new highrise proposed for the U District since the upzone was approved....