Highlights

Tukwila Makes Targeted Transit and Pedestrian Improvements Near Southcenter

The City of Tukwila has delivered a series of pedestrian and transit facility improvements near Westfield Southcenter, a major regional shopping mall. The bulk of the...

Lidding I-5 in Downtown Seattle: The Time To Act Is Now

Amid Seattle's rapidly growing inner neighborhoods remains the urban scar of I-5, a massive concrete and steel ribbon that is the lasting legacy of...
People bike on the low bridge with the cracked high bridge looming overhead. (Photo by Doug Trumm)

The Urbanist’s Greatest Hits of 2020

Thank you for reading The Urbanist and making it through a crucible of a year with us. We wanted to look back at our...

2017 In Review

2017 was a banner year for Seattle. We led the country in construction cranes, in population growth rate, in transit ridership growth, and--much to...

The Urbanist’s Greatest Hits Of 2016

Another year, another great list of articles from our writers at The Urbanist. Here are our top ten articles from 2016 based on readership....

Sunday Video: Architecture Turning Dreams Into Reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyNGDWnmX0U To world-renowned architect Bjarke Ingels, architecture is the fiction of the real world, in which dreams about the way we aspire to live our...

2018: Goals, Obstacles, and Resolutions

Seattle has ambitious plans for 2018. Taking MHA Citywide... Can We Expand It to Single Family? The Seattle City Council plans to expand the Mandatory Housing...

2018 in Review: The Year of the Four SDOT Heads

As 2018 draws to an end, it's the time for reflection and last ditch efforts to get you to read some of fine volunteer...