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Civics and Culture

Trailhead Direct Returns for 2021 Season in June with Two Routes

King County Metro's popular city-to-trail transit service -- Trailhead Direct -- is returning in June after a year's-long pandemic-induced suspension. This year's Trailhead Direct...

Midweek Video: The Quick Way to Make New Pedestrian Plazas

https://youtu.be/bnIRbwVG4sY Dave Amos highlights how communities across the country are converting street space to pedestrian plazas.

Sunday Video: The Surprising Reason Behind Chinatown’s Aesthetic

https://youtu.be/EiX3hTPGoCg Vox focuses in on why San Francisco’s Chinatown has its architectural characteristics. The history behind it has a lot to do with racism and...

Meetup Video: May 2021 with Sam Assefa

https://youtu.be/sagR5Hd6i-4 Sam Assefa joined for the May meetup as out guest speaker. Assefa formerly served as Director of the Seattle Office of Planning and Community...

Sunday Video: Why Is LA Traffic So Bad?

https://youtu.be/DbiI9ainetY Dave Amos explores the history of Los Angeles’ highway building and the ways that traffic in the region is so bad. It isn’t just...

The View From Nathan’s Bus: Uptown Redwood

You have a name for the voice inside of you. Why do we live at a speed that prevents us from hearing it? Why does...

The View From Nathan’s Bus: Belated Thoughts on Bus Driver Appreciation Day and What...

I love that they have an actual day for this. There's something endearingly old-school about it, and yet who can argue the value of...

City Nature Challenge Kicks Off April 30

Participate in an annual international effort to document the biodiversity found in cities.  We tend to think of cities as the domain of homo sapiens,...