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 --...
The Urbanist Podcast: Seattle Turns in a Terrible Scorecard on Golf Lands
Hello listeners! In this episode, reporter Ray Dubicki and I talk about golf: a sport that continues to leave a large footprint on American...
Council Votes 9-0 to Direct JumpStart Spending to Housing, Economic Recovery, and Green New...
On Monday, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved the spending plan for the JumpStart Seattle payroll tax, which passed 7-2 on July 6th. The...
Is Seattle’s Climate Action Plan A Plan Of Inaction?
On Wednesday, Mayor Jenny Durkan reaffirmed Seattle’s commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, and unveiled the climate mitigation plan, Seattle Climate Action. She promised to...
Sunday Video: An Urban Planner Plays SimCity
https://youtu.be/LUQaCoxybW8
In this extended short, Dave Amos of City Beautiful takes on the old school classic SimCity from the perspective of a professional planner 20...
Sunday Video: Our Disposable Architecture
Our Disposable Architecture by TEDx Talks on YouTube.
A look at how our modern architecture has turned into throw away architecture, which lacks durability and...
Sunday Video: This Lake Now Has Legal Rights, Just Like You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwhcrpJTzGQ
Under a new law, Lake Erie has been given rights in the same way that people and corporations have them. But what is the...
Op-Ed: Save Luma the Giant Cedar from Redevelopment
Tree activists rally, seeking to save a giant red cedar in Wedgwood from the ax.
Luma is a healthy old growth Western red cedar in...