Civics and Culture

If you care about urbanism, here's your rundown of how you can get involved and make a difference this week: Tell Seattle City Council...

As a relatively new cyclist and resident of South Seattle, the recent The Urbanist piece about the downgrading of protected bike lanes frustrated me. The...

https://youtu.be/jYUdIfx9r0g Seattle’s City Traffic Engineer, Dongho Chang, explains why Seattle has various types of bicycle and transit markings and how they work.

https://vimeo.com/240382367 New York City-based TransitCenter is promoting bus stop balancing, or what some call bus stop consolidation, in New York and beyond to speed up...

It seemed remiss of me not to at least ask. "How's he doin' out there? He's doin' okay?" He didn't look it, that's for sure,...

Grace Kim, a cohousing expert, explains that cohousing could help create social cohesion for many people and ultimately make them happier.

Seattle’s transportation department missed the mark in their recent response to the campaign Give Pedestrians the Green. #GivePedstheGreen argues that in urban villages pedestrians...

Awhile back I wrote about adding a RapidRide E rail line that continues to First Hill to Seattle Subway's Vision Map, and the idea caught...