Stories from Metro Route 7: Mekong Supermarket and Stop 8380
The sign for Metro stop 8380 has a smudge on the second eight, which makes it look like a six. Because confirming the number...
Of Kindness and Cow Manure
"You know what it smelled like, it smelled like those stink bombs kids use. It smelled like that."
I said, "those are terrible!"
Sometimes the conversations...
In the city, we blend the familiar with the edge of the unknown.
I doubt that before today, any urbanist writer has used an old, Latin term that lives on in southern Italy, to explain the particular wonder...
A Panel With The Urbanist At The American Planning Association National Convention
Attention all you planning nerds! The American Planning Association's National Conference is coming to Seattle Saturday through Tuesday (April 18 through April 21). The...
Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Nearside
"How's it going?" I nod to a man clad in brown and black.
"I'm great," he says, even though he has a cell phone to...
Reenvisioning the Public Realm of South Lake Union, Belltown, and Denny Triangle
When the population of a city doubles, its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. As noted in a paper by the MIT Media Lab,...
Stories from Metro Route 7: Cafe Avole, Rainier Mini-Mart and Stop 8190
An iron compass, set into the concrete just outside Metro bus stop 8190, lets you know that you’ll never be lost, and that all...
Othello II
A twenty-something couple approaches the front, late at night at Othello Street. They're about to deboard.
"Um," says the girl. "Hey, can we ask you...