Civics and Culture

Sunday Video: Why We’re Seeing Mass Layoffs in the US But Not the UK

https://youtu.be/HaraFkhonFo Vox explains why the United States is seeing employment plummet amidst the pandemic while the United Kingdom has not experienced the same level of...
A white t-shirt reads "I only trick or treat in 15-minute neighborhoods"

7 Last-Minute Urbanist Halloween Costumes

Organized by what you already have on hand. It's been weeks since we began celebrating Halloween. The Danny Elfman music, the pumpkin spice, and the...

Hearing Examiner Recommends UW Campus Master Plan Amid Community Concerns

Flying under the radar, the University of Washington's campus master plan update received a recommendation by Seattle Hearing Examiner Sue Tanner in mid-January. In...

The Good Neighbor

I won’t mention the many issues I take with this awful coworker of mine. I’ll merely point out his obliviousness of how to skip-stop, the better...

You Are The Machine That Kills Fascism

We urbanists love cities. We spend a lot of time studying them, reading about them, writing about them, and savoring them in our own...

Othello, Kindness In Dark Places

Rainier and Othello is not an inviting place. You know the landscape: one and two story buildings, mostly residential, with buckling and otherwise eroded...

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...

The New Normal

  This guy's smiling, let me tell you. I thought I smiled a lot. He walks up at Pine southbound, first stop on the 7,...