The once and future street, and how it defines us
A week’s residency in Glasgow, Scotland returns a 2011 essay to the forefront, and its message: In the post-freeway world, recall the important, organic...
Op-Ed: Expand Urbanism, Emphasize Inclusion and Equity in Our Shared Vision
King County Council Chair Girmay Zahilay and Rian Watt make the case for a more inclusive urbanism: "To fully realize the transformative promise of urbanism, we must be willing to ask: urbanism for whom?"
Futurewise Awards Celebrate Equity-Centered Environmentalism
Supporters, colleagues and elected officials gathered at Seattle's Westin Hotel for Futurewise's Spring Breakfast Livable Community Awards on March 2nd. The awards lifted up six groups...
Anna Karina
There's so much police, fire, and medical sprawled out everywhere you'd think it was the parking lot at Bellevue Psychiatric. This place looks like Willowbrook...
Nathan Vass, Interviewed On Bare Naked Bravery
Bare Naked Bravery is a podcast hosted by Emily Ann Peterson, the singer songwriter, author, teaching artist, and creative entrepreneur. On it she celebrates...
So Many Lives
The faces you see, glancingly, across the years, are living full and storied lives of their own. Nearly three years ago I wrote: A...
A Capital Gains Tax for Seattle? New Progressive Revenue Measure Enters the Conversation
Proposed by Councilmember Andrew Lewis, the new tax would fund housing and homeless services
With the Covid recession already putting local governments' budgets into the...
Strife in the Afternoon: Nathan on Fights
It all started so innocently. Each person meant well, but each had a stress inside them, a bitterness, that they turned on the others...