Seattle Seeks to Close Internet Access Gap
In September, the City of Seattle released the Internet for All Seattle Report. This report follows the City's July 27th resolution to establish the...
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...
The Secret to Seattle’s Success is Social Infrastructure, not Low Taxes
The Jumpstart Seattle tax was a take-off-the-mask moment for Seattle that is still reverberating through Seattle politics.
Some would have us believe low taxes...
Bring on the Clusterwohnungen
A few years ago, Seattle ran an interesting experiment on radically densifying low rise neighborhoods with microhousing--a typology of small, minimal units that provide...
Over 90% of Seattle’s New Buildings Are Mixed-Use or Multi-Family
The City of Seattle released new construction data on January 15th and it shows a remarkable amount of new building. There were 8,311 housing...
Sunday Video: Why So Many New Buildings Are Covered in Rectangles
https://youtu.be/Ml-ZP-_e_o4
Vox explores why so many new buildings seem to prominently feature rectangular panels as exterior cladding.
Is Seattle a $20 Lunch Town?
As we emerge from pandemic and look towards returning to offices, a question starts to come up. “What’s for lunch?” A recent impromptu survey...
Rents In San Francisco Are Determined By Demand, New Data Show
Slightly better than the worst possible outcome (detail), by Christine Hou
By putting together 60+ years of housing data, much of it gathered from newspaper microfiche,...