Civics and Culture

March Meetup this Tuesday: Maiko Winkler-Chin Will Talk Chinatown Past and Future

This month we are featuring Maiko Winkler-Chin at our monthly meetup Tuesday (March 12th) at the Panama Hotel. Maiko is Executive Director of the...

Sustenance (in White Center)

They were out there, figuring it out. A scruffy white van and a broke-down '90s-era red Ford Explorer stood on the roadside facing each other, doors...

Tacoma Says ‘Yes’ to Cottages in its Backyard

Residents of Tacoma largely support a change to the municipal code that would make it easier for home owners to add a secondary living...

Seattle Stagnated on Vision Zero in 2018, Preliminary Crash Data Shows

Preliminary data from the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) shows the total number of serious injuries and fatalities on Seattle's streets was virtually unchanged...

Sunday Video: How Realistic Is Cities Skylines?

https://youtu.be/7c5pSCgbZ84 In this video, Dave Amos of City Beautiful speaks to a software designer about Cities: Skylines and its attempt to simulate real cities.

How We Do

So this is continued on from a recent post, in which I was listing a few positive moments I’d noticed of late. Wouldn’t you know...

‘Tech Trash’ versus NIMBYs: Final MHA Hearing Lays Bare Seattle’s Generational Divide

The final public hearing on citywide implementation of Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) was long and contentious. Hundreds of speakers waited for hours to present...

Sunday Video: American Segregation, Mapped at Day and Night

https://youtu.be/qaPQN0aW47I It may not come as a surprise, but many American cities are still highly racially segregated, according to Vox. During daytime hours, blending becomes...