Smart Cities Require Better Digital Privacy Planning
We’ve moved beyond the initial excitement about the sizzle of smart cities. The basic idea—much heralded but limited so far in practical application—is to...
Sunday Video: The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations
Physicist Geoffrey West explores how natural laws apply to biology, cities, and corporations, predicting everything from walking speeds to crime and health.
2019 Population Estimates Have Seattle Pushing 750,000 with Steady Growth
Seattle, King County, and Washington State growth rates all stabilized for the last year of this long decade.
The Office of Financial Management's (OFM) April...
Map of the Week: Every Job in the Puget Sound
Jobs, jobs, jobs. It's all about the jobs. But where exactly are they? Robert Manduca, a PhD student at Harvard University who specializes in sociology, data, and...
285 Reasons Seattle’s Zoning is an [Unfunny] Joke
Strangely, it is very difficult to answer the question: "How many zones does Seattle have?" That alone suggests an uncomfortable answer.
The Seattle Municipal Code...
Midweek Video: Where is the Densest Place in the United States?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM9_MbaEoY4
In this video short, Dave Amos of City Beautiful talks about the how the United States Census Bureau measures population and highlights an oddity...
Where Did King County Metro’s Ridership Go?
A third of King County Metro's pre-pandemic transit ridership has yet to return, and many agencies are seeing stronger rebounds. Where did the bus riders go?
Workers Need Homes, So Why Isn’t Our Zoning Keeping Up With Job Growth?
When Bellevue boasted they would eat Seattle’s lunch last month, I am not sure they realized the housing crisis was on the full course...