Civics and Culture

Sunday Video: India’s Planned Capital City (Designed by Le Corbusier)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeFF3t41png Dave Amos of City Beautiful takes a look at an Indian capital city, Chandigarh, to explore how two very different city building approaches--Garden City...

Meetup Video: December 2021 with Dongho Chang

Dongho Chang joined as The Urbanist's December guest speaker. Chang spent nine years as City Traffic Engineer at the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT),...

It’s Worked So Far

"Hey, do you know what time it is?" Southbound Third and Marion, as the world is going home. I love it when I know people's...

Sunday Video: Holiday Fun At Sea-Tac

Sea-Tac Airport brings some holiday cheer to travelers. https://youtu.be/qsRmvNRajd8

Here They Come

We're headed out to the Valley. I pull up to Martin Luther King Way, across from Franklin. It's a dingy gloom tonight. The dealers...
Street scape brick facade movie theater building in front of a blue sky featuring a marquee advertising Majestic Bay, Guardians 3, Little Mermaid, Fast X and coming attractions of Indiana Jones and Spiderverse.

Your 2023 Urbanist Summer Movie List

Place looks to be important in these flicks Yes, it's that time of year when the sun actually graces the Seattle sky. (Don't tell anyone,...

Tell SDOT and Metro How to Make Bell Street Park Better

When Bell Street Park opened in 2014, it was one of Seattle's first explorations into designing streets as "shared space". Modeled after Dutch "woonerfs"...

What Could Rapidly Growing Seattle Do to Reduce Small Businesses Displacement?

Workie Wubushet, owner of Saba Ethiopian Cuisine, knew her campaign to save the restaurant she'd owned for nearly 20 years was over when the...