Map of the Week: King County’s Localscape
Have you ever wanted to know the racial diversity of your neighborhood, how your local schools rank, or where development permits have been recently...
Sunday Video: The Value of Data Sharing
Releasing data captured by government agencies in an accessible way to the public, has the potential to produce interesting insights about city life. Ben...
Seattleites Want Mid-Rise Social Housing Even More Than Sixplexes, Polls Shows
Social housing is popular in Seattle -- so popular it even seems to override concerns about appropriate building scale and amorphous "neighborhood character." To...
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.
Seattle’s 400-Foot Wide Stroad
If Seattle were a 400-foot wide road (the widest street option available on StreetMix.net), it’d look something like this:
That’s 27 lanes primarily for cars...
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...
International District Development Wave Comes with Growing Pains and Opportunities
More than 4,500 homes have been constructed, permitted, or proposed in the Chinatown-International District since 2019 -- 1,240 units of them affordable, based on...
SDOT Studying High Capacity Transit for the Roosevelt Corridor
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is studying options for transit improvements in the Roosevelt corridor between Downtown and Northgate. Although Sound Transit is...