Seattle Council Expands Tree Protections, Pedersen Dissents
Seeking to grow its tree canopy cover, Seattle -- a city originally built on logging and carved out of towering old growth forest --...
Sunday Video: Why Grocery Shopping Is Better in Amsterdam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYHTzqHIngk
Density is a strong driver for proximity and choice of grocery stores. In Amsterdam, they are especially ubiquitous and cater to people who bike.
Midweek Video: Why The United States Isn’t Ready For Clean Energy
https://youtu.be/s3ScJ_FwaZk
If America wants to green up its economy, it's going to need to make huge investments in transmission facilities to transport greener energy sources....
FAST Act Makes Slow Progress
The sausage has been made and the federal transportation bill has emerged from the conference committee with a treacly new name: Fixing America’s Surface...
What Upzoning Can Do
"The solution: Americans, together and all at once, would have to stop thinking about their homes as an investment," Conor Dougherty wrote in The Upshot this past...
How 3D Printing Will Change Cities
In the sci-fi series Star Trek, characters could use machines called replicators to instantly materialize just about any food, beverage, or tool on site....
PSRC Seeking Comment on $17.5 Million in Grants for Bike and Pedestrian Projects
On Thursday, the Puget Sound Regional Council released a slate of proposed bicycle and pedestrian projects for public comment that the agency plans to fund....
South Park Joins Growing Movement to Dismantle Freeways
From a bird’s eye view, Seattle’s South Park neighborhood is cut in half by SR-99, divided diagonally from one end to another. The highway,...