Civics and Culture

My Changing City

From a thousand miles away I drive you to this traffic snarl my dear. One mile stretch Northbound Exit 164 Seneca street. The city smiles like...

CNU25 Workshop: Community-Oriented Housing

About fifty Congress for the New Urbanism conference attendees came together to learn about Community-Oriented Housing on the first full day of CNU25. The workshop,...

CNU25 Live: Day One

We're covering the CNU25 Conference live from Seattle over the next four days. For a play-by-play of the seminars and events, check on back...

Meet Skyway: Seattle’s Unincorporated Neighbor To The South

If I asked you what Seattle's nearest neighbor to the south was, you might say Tukwila. That'd be part right. Tukwila brushes against the Seattle border...

CNU Kicks Off National Conference In Seattle

The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is hosting its national conference in Seattle this year and its kickoff event tonight is free and open...

Red May: Dedicating A Month To Radical Left Thinking

Philip Wohlstetter has been stirring the pot in Seattle for quite some time. In the 1980s Wohlstetter helped launch Invisible Seattle, an artist-led effort to redefine...

All You Need Is

Here are two figures running for my bus now, tumbling out of the American darkness. They are a man and a woman of proximate...

Liberty Bank Building Art Evokes Black History

Update: This story has been corrected to reflect that the City of Seattle does not require private developers to spend 1% of their budgets...