UAW4121 Joins the Youth Climate Strike
As the human tragedy of Hurricane Dorian lingers over the Bahamas, fires devastate Indigenous lands in the world's largest rainforest, and democratic presidential candidates...
Midweek Video: How Eminent Domain Destroys Neighborhoods
https://youtu.be/w0cCF2pG13U
From time to time, eminent domain in American has been used in unwise and unjust ways to demolish and remake neighborhoods. In this video,...
Sunday Video: The Buildings “Model Cities” Built
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twnBo5nqUzI&t=1166s
Model Cities is a little known chapter in our urban history. It was part of LBJ's War on Poverty, and was the last gasp...
Sunday Video: Why Your Public Transportation Sucks
https://youtu.be/1Z1KLpf_7tU
Hasan Minhaj explains why the state of American public transportation is threatened and leaves a lot to desire.
Midweek Video: An Intro to Urban Wastewater Systems
https://youtu.be/-HkRkCXPjzw
Have you ever wondered how urban stormwater and sewer systems in cities work? Dave Amos walks through the history of these systems and the...
Book Talk with Nathan Today August 29th at 12:30pm
Hello, Urbanist friends. In the wake of my book being nominated for the Washington State Book Award, I'm having another book talk at the Greenwood Senior...
Sunday Video: The Reason Our Streets Switched To Cul-De-Sacs
https://youtu.be/d9vDcfH03gs
Dave Amos charts the American change from connected grids to the rise of cul-de-sacs, and what’s now being done to counteract their pitfalls.
Africatown Finetunes Its Designs for Midtown Center
Community engagement continues to inform design plans for new developments at 23rd and Union in the Central District
Last summer more than 200 volunteers participated...