Opening Streets to Play Creates Powerful Community Connections
Last summer, we started organizing block parties. We applied for a permit from the city, and blocked off either end of our street to...
Bellevue’s State of the City Paints Urbanist Vision But Misses the Mark
Early Tuesday morning, over 150 people packed into a fourth floor ballroom of Meydenbauer Center to attend Bellevue's annual State of the City address...
Ways to Support and Engage with Black Urbanism in Seattle and Tacoma
The first Juneteenth may have been celebrated in 1866, but the holiday memorializing the liberation of America's last enslaved people after the end of...
Grassroots Activists Share Their Path to Success in Sunsetting Inequitable Community Councils
On July 9, 2022, HB 1769 sunsets the Houghton and East Bellevue Community Councils, which existed for more than five decades.
We detailed the inequity...
South King County Pilot Shows Promise of Guaranteed Basic Income
In 2020, King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay initiated the King County Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot program, which was funded by community service operating grant...
Transit Rider’s Union Leads Coalition Seeking to Raise Tukwila’s Minimum Wage
Ballot initiative would put the South King County city on par with Seattle and SeaTac
Seeking to address regional gaps in the minimum wage, a...
Reopen Tacoma’s Broadway to People
Transforming Broadway into a plaza would create a world-class pedestrian space in the heart of Downtown Tacoma.
Urban explorers, or really any attentive pedestrians,...
Smart Planning Has Made La Rochelle a Paradise for Walking and Biking
Situated on the central west coast of France, La Rochelle is one of the country's most popular domestic tourist destinations because of its proximity...