Downtown Bellevue's skyline

Rapid Buildup Fuels Downtown Bellevue Skyline

Since 2018, a deluge of construction projects in Downtown Bellevue has been completed and begun to form Bellevue's adolescent skyline. This spree has been...
A group of about 50 bicyclists stand on the shores of Lake Washington with Bellevue in the background.

The Results Are In on The Urbanist’s First Annual Reader Survey

465 readers answered our call for feedback and told us how we can improve. Here's what they said.
Emirates plane taxiing at Sea-Tac International Airport.

Puget Sound Aviation Forecast Suggests Second Sea-Tac-Sized Airport Needed by 2050

On Thursday, the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) released the first part of a multi-year aviation study for the four-county region. The study's early...

Map of the Week: Densification Is Everywhere

Between 2012 and 2013, Seattle was the nation's fastest growing big city ($). Headline after headline since cheered this revelation, and it may very well still be...

Measuring Success on the Urban Villages Strategy, Part 3: Open Space, Development, Shared Prosperity,...

Editor’s Note: This is Part 3 in a three-part series on measuring the success of Seattle’s urban village strategy. For background on the report, see...

What Housing Shortage?

Why do Seattle rents continue to rise to higher and higher levels of unaffordability? A new narrative has taken hold to explain this: the housing...

Sunday Video: Non-Typical City Planner Thinking

Wes Craiglow gives a TEDx talks about city budgeting services from a spatial point of view (per acre, per square mile) and uses a...

Sunday Video: The Power of Storytelling Through Data

Ben Wellington uses data in innovative ways to tell interesting stories which enhance our understanding of cities. In comedic fashion, Wellington explains some of...