Civics and Culture

Building the Body Athletic – Your Urbanist Sports Year

It’s 4th of July weekend, so we’re in the doldrums of the sports year. WNBA, soccer, and baseball are in the long stretch of...

Sunday Video: How To Bring Back Front Yard Businesses

About Here takes a dive into corner retail and front yard and accessory commercial units in single-family areas. Architects have a lot of ideas...

We Own This City Because You Cut It Adrift

A policing drama from the creators of "The Wire" and "Treme" is a devastating look at urban policy. The police aren’t coming, and we know...

Midweek Video: What America Gets Wrong When Building Transit

In this video, Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes walks through many of the common mistakes that America and Canada make when planning and...

Ways to Support and Engage with Black Urbanism in Seattle and Tacoma

The first Juneteenth may have been celebrated in 1866, but the holiday memorializing the liberation of America's last enslaved people after the end of...

Sunday Video: 10 Best City Parks in North America

Ray Delahanty of CityNerd shares his list of the 10 best city parks in North America. The list is focused on parks largely situated...

Midweek Video: Raising Kids In Cities Is Better

In North America there is a prevailing line of thinking that the best place to raise children is in suburbia. Jason Slaughter (Not Just...
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Kuo/郭: Watching Chinatown’s Gentrifying/Generational Change

Some of my earliest memories of taking public transit were the times when my maternal grandparents would occasionally walk me and my brother to...