Sunday Video: Cities Aren’t Loud, Cars Are Loud
https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8
Not Just Bikes explores noise in cities and the impacts to people. A key point of the video is just how much noise cars...
Long Awaited Industrial Land Use Reform Nibbles Around the Edges
For over a year, committees of local business and labor representatives have been working to develop a strategy for Seattle’s industrial and maritime lands....
Sunday Video: What Happens After A City Removes A Freeway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4WDCc_UHds
Dave Amos of City Beautiful visits Seattle's waterfront and looks at what is happening as it transforms from having an elevated highway running through...
Lots of Love for Transit at the Seattle Subway Mayoral Forum
Seattle Subway and co-sponsor Seattle Transit Blog, both members of the MASS Coalition alongside The Urbanist, held a mayoral forum focused on the topic...
Sunday Video: Suburbs That Don’t Suck – Streetcar Suburbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0
Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes talks suburbs and how not all are the same. Slaughter particularly emphasizes how streetcar suburbs and suburbs that...
Meetup Video: March 2021 with Colleen Echohawk
https://youtu.be/_7v6YTAZ9MQ
Seattle Mayoral candidate Colleen Echohawk joined The Urbanist for the March monthly meetup. During the meeting, she discussed wide-ranging priorities that she would pursue...
Midweek Video: How Highway Noise Barriers Don’t Solve All
https://youtu.be/e0naL8eJmLA
Highways are the bane of cities creating all kinds of awful pollution, including noise pollution. To mitigate noise, sound barrier walls have been installed...
Tacoma Chinese Reconciliation Park Grapples with History of Expulsion
In the shadow of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and the midst of a dramatic rise in anti-Asian violence, I stumbled...