South Lake Union Woonerf Moves to Full Council
Woonerfs are designed to be living streets, giving space for pedestrians and bicyclists along slower moving cars. They feature traffic-calming measures such as curbless,...
Sunday Video: The Price of Saving Paradise
https://youtu.be/guzxgAOuPzI
Bloomberg QuickTake looks at how Paradise, California may pursue conversion of forestland and vacant exurban properties destroyed by wildfires into park space to stop...
Map of the Week: Average Annual Household Carbon Emissions
We are a carbon-based society. Our daily lives are built around our ability to acquire and consume goods, produce things, move freely from one...
Passive(haus) Aggressive Incentives Could Jumpstart Green Building
As Seattle’s economy adapts to the crisis of the global pandemic, our city still faces pressures of a growing population. Articles have littered the...
Midweek Video: How Humans Are Making Pandemics More Likely
https://youtu.be/qp5CEcIyk94
Vox explains how human expansion into natural habitats is directly linked to the spread of new and deadly diseases in human populations.
A Follow-Up on the Living Building Challenge
It is impossible to ignore the construction that is happening throughout the Puget Sound region. Cranes and scaffolding are everywhere. In Q1 2023 alone,...
So Long, Pronto Bike Share
Today marks an unusual day in Seattle: we are shutting down an entire mode of transportation. Two and a half years after Pronto! Cycle...
Sunday Video: The Past And Future City
Stephanie Meeks, President and CEO of the Nation Trust for Historic Preservation, leads an insightful half-hour discussion on the past and future of cities...