Civics and Culture

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,...

Midweek Video: Texas’s Power Disaster Is a Warning Sign for the US

https://youtu.be/Zcrsgdl_hP0 In this short video, Vox explains how Texas' March electric energy failure could be just the tip of the iceberg for America going forward....

Sunday Video: How Does Houston Plan Without Zoning?

https://youtu.be/TaU1UH_3B5k There is a big misnomer that Houston doesn’t have zoning and somehow must be a free market dream for land use. But that perception...

Meetup Video: April 2021 with Andrew Grant Houston

https://youtu.be/Yky_tMdOvrQ At this month's meetup, Seattle mayoral candidate Andrew Grant Houston ("Ace" for short) stopped by to talk about his policy platform. Ace is a...

Leslie Kern’s ‘Feminist City’ Offers Critical Corrective to Patriarchal City-Making

Leslie Kern teaches feminist geography, but she is under no illusion that straightforward solutions can magically cure the imbalance and violence baked into our...

Midweek Video: Metro’s New Eastlake Bus Layover Facility

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iqMgUoNKkU King County Metro will construct a new bus layover facility on Eastlake Ave E and is still in the bidding phase for construction. The...