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Civics and Culture

Summer On The Rails: Traveling on Amtrak’s Empire Builder

Cross-country train rides with and without kids, dining cars with and without meat, and making travel part of the vacation. To ride a train across...

Sunday Video: Metro Systems With No Fare Gates

There’s a lot of talk about using fare gates instead of proof of payment in Seattle, but can proof of payment be just as...

Midweek Video: How To Improve A Stroad (Seattle’s Aurora Avenue)

Ray Delahanty of CityNerd visited Seattle to showcase the city's preeminent stroad: Aurora Avenue. Delahanty offers a sobering overview of the road, but he...

Sunday Video: How To Better Design Cities To Move Goods

Dave Amos of City Beautiful talks about how cities can move goods faster, more efficiently, and sustainably. Amos highlights some strategies that are being...

Midweek Video: Planning for Aging Communities

Planning for aging communities is increasingly important. Vox visits Weesp, a small city in The Netherlands, to understand how the "dementia village" model works...

Why Peeing Your Pants in Seattle is Not a Personal Failure

First things first -- you might be having a lot of feelings about the idea of peeing your pants. I certainly did. But having...

Annual Seattle Design Festival Kicks Off August 20

It's time to get ready for the 12th annual Seattle Design Festival, which will be held August 20-26 at locations across the city. This...

Sunday Video: Bakfiets, The Car-Replacement Bike

In The Netherlands, the box bike (bakfiets) has regained popularity across demographics as a way of moving kids and goods. New technology has also...