Fridaygram: From Railway Yards and Dilapidated Parking Lots to Millennium Park
In 1998, the Mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley announced a vision to redevelop the rail tracks and dilapidated surface car park that consumed...
Sunday Video: How The Dutch Beat The Ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoEZvSl5Cg8
Johnny Harris of Vox explains why Amsterdam has canals and how the Dutch have fought the ocean for land.
Reopen Tacoma’s Broadway to People
Transforming Broadway into a plaza would create a world-class pedestrian space in the heart of Downtown Tacoma.
Urban explorers, or really any attentive pedestrians,...
What Is A Housing Emergency Really?
I want to tell you about 417 acres of land owned by the city of Seattle, about 1% of the Seattle that does not...
Bellevue Should Save Coal Creek from Sprawl Development
Embedded in Bellevue's Coal Creek wilderness area are a handful of parcels that have been developed or zoned for single-family homes. In 2016 and...
One Last Goodbye to the Kalakala
That's it. Today, the Kalakala is going to the breakers. The 276-foot ferry's last trip is scheduled for early morning today, from the Hylebos...
Sunday Video: Seattle’s Long-Forgotten Hill
The Denny Regrade, completed between 1897 and 1930, changed the face of Seattle's downtown forever. This video from Seattle's municipal archives breaks down how it happened and why.
Midweek Video: Can Quality Transit Heal Car-Oriented Suburban Wounds?
Los Angeles was a city built on good transit bones, but somewhere along the way went off the rails with cars and suburbanization. Ray...