The Streetcar Symphony

Nothing stops the chorus of a city’s urban dance than a parking garage or surface lot. In the booming age of Seattle’s downtown core,...

Op-Ed: Ban Bus Wraps and Spare Riders the Barrage of Advertisements

You don’t have to detest all advertising or be a wild-eyed radical to agree that windows are for seeing through. Metro should discontinue bus wraps that obscure windows.

Midweek Video: How Rotterdam’s Flood Defences Could Help Save Us All

https://youtu.be/Rt6RzjjsaRM The engineering and technical experience in flood defences of Rotterdam and The Netherlands could help countries across the globe implement flood prevention strategies to...

Late Night Conversations in Rainier Beach

  Two teens board at Henderson. They walk to the back, then immediately turn around and walk back up, looking for seats as far away...

Housing Notes: Africatown Plaza Breaks Ground, Built-to-Rent Single-Family Home Boom, and Living Office Building

This installment of housing notes contains mix of high and low notes, but we'll kick things off with story that hits the upper octaves....

What Not to Say

She rides every Sunday night, on her way to church. Her love of God and music overtakes her body as she gives in to...
The metal awning includes the building name in red letters. The building has a white facade.

Supportive Housing Building Opens Near Seattle’s Woodland Park

DESC opened 95 supportive housing units last week in Upper Fremont. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson attended the ribbon-cutting celebration, noting the positive step toward addressing the homelessness crisis, but Trump cuts could slow the pace of similar project openings.

The Great and Terrible Fifth & Jackson: An Ethnography

Do I show up in his dreams, as he has in mine? In my life he began as a recurring face in my periphery, one...