Measuring Success on the Urban Villages Strategy, Part 2: Resource Use, Conservation, and Healthy...
Editor's Note: This is Part 2 in a three-part series on measuring the success of Seattle's urban village strategy. For background on the report, see...
Sunday Video: The Trains That Subsidize Suburbia
https://youtu.be/vxWjtpzCIfA
Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes shows how Toronto's GO Transit commuter rail is primarily setup to subsidize the suburbs without providing real, regular...
Exploring Industry and Nature on the Duwamish
As a volunteer with Friends of Street Ends, a group that works to open and enhance Seattle's shoreline street ends for public access, I...
303 Battery: The World’s First Net Zero Energy Highrise Apartment Building
On a humble lot in Belltown, a remarkable building is underway. While 303 Battery may never raise the same level of international buzz as...
Sunday Video: Permeable Concrete
Tarmac, a British company, shows just how much water their permeable concrete can absorb. Using mixer truck, 4,000 liters of water are sucked through...
Midweek Video: How Highway Noise Barriers Don’t Solve All
https://youtu.be/e0naL8eJmLA
Highways are the bane of cities creating all kinds of awful pollution, including noise pollution. To mitigate noise, sound barrier walls have been installed...
Sunday Video: Airport Expansion
https://youtu.be/QN5Rnu0-RhE
Using London’s Heathrow Airport as a case study, Dave Amos explains the pitfalls and limited benefits of airport expansion.
Sunday Video: A Sustainable Nation In Four Generations
Architect and urban planner Doug Farr talks about how America could become a sustainable nation in four generations.
https://youtu.be/qOidzH_lFqg