Sunday Video: Why Fixing Slums Is Key to the Future of Cities
https://youtu.be/BoRx_zIwiXM
In this video, RetroReport looks at slums and why fixing them is the key to cities in the future. To illustrate their point, they...
Mayor Leads Scripted U District Community Walk
On Saturday, Seattle mayor Ed Murray continued his series of "Find It, Fix It" walks with residents of the University District. The event drew...
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...
Sunday Video: How Native Hawaiians Fought The US Navy and Won
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nWZ15JeZnc
An island in Hawaiʻi had long been occupied and used by the United States military. But native Hawaiians fought to restore it to the...
Your Voice, Your Choice Voting Starts Tomorrow
Seattle's first citywide experiment in participatory budgeting starts tomorrow as polls open for the Your Voice, Your Choice park and street grant competition. In...
City Council Landmarks Eldridge Tire Company Building and One-Story Fremont Office
On Monday, the Seattle City Council decided the process to establish a business improvement area in the SoDo district and the fate of two...
How to Drive the 7, Pt III of IV: Route 49 Northbound
Where were we. That’s right. We’d just come all the way up from Rainier, and are now in the middle of the right turn...
Phinney Ridge Apartment Complex Pioneers Unique Communal Model
Delivering 35 new family-sized homes, Shared Roof features a unique financing model catering to a range of incomes, built-in community, and hip cafes spilling into a public courtyard. Is the model replicable? The developer thinks so.