Civics and Culture

Stephanie at 185th

  "I got my transfer in here somewhere." We're at 185th inbound, and her face is lined with age and humor, that kind of spirit...

Sunday Video: Tourists Love ‘Live Like A Local’ Travel. Do Locals?

https://youtu.be/8BGABFTKHpM Touristification on Lisbon has been swift, leaving many locals to wonder how they fit in with the city. With the global rise of tourism,...

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"...

Sunday Video: Seattle Freeway Revolt

https://vimeo.com/135832621 In this video short, take a look back at the era of freeway building in Seattle and the revolts to stop them that ensued...

Sunday Video: Subterranean Christmas Train

https://youtu.be/HXouL-s5pBo Every year around the holiday, New York City Transit runs special nostalgia trains from yesteryear. Trains run on Sunday with many festive riders in...
A black and white photo with overlaid sketch of some trees and a walking path.

The Seattle Times Found Many Ways to Profit From Exclusion and Redlining

A short walk through the long history of discriminatory housing ads It’s interesting to sift through historic print newspaper advertisements and get a glimpse of...

Sunday Video: 24 Hours In Rotterdam

https://vimeo.com/246188042 In this video, locals and city officials from Rotterdam explain how the city center has had an intentional urban renaissance by increasing residential densities,...

Sunday Video: How Online Ratings Make Good Schools Look Bad

https://youtu.be/WC3ZPgg0nds Vox explains how this online school rating system may be underrating the actual quality of many schools.