Sunday Video: Why Is LA Traffic So Bad?
https://youtu.be/DbiI9ainetY
Dave Amos explores the history of Los Angeles’ highway building and the ways that traffic in the region is so bad. It isn’t just...
Call to Action: Support 133 Homes in Magnolia at Upcoming Design Review
The all-volunteer West Design Review Board will hear about a project at 2550 32nd Ave W that would house new neighbors and bring an...
Former Planning Director Sam Assefa to Speak at Our May 11th Meetup
For our May 11th meetup we are very excited to be joined by Sam Assefa, until recently the Director of the Seattle Office of...
Seattle’s Mandatory Housing Affordability Program Is on Course So Far
Last week the Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program celebrated two years of being in effect in all multifamily areas of the city. The data...
Op-ed: How to Improve Compassion Seattle’s Charter Amendment
Author’s Note:
I eventually changed my mind and moved from the ambivalent support you see below to firm opposition. Two reasons were paramount:
CA29’s use of...
Leslie Kern’s ‘Feminist City’ Offers Critical Corrective to Patriarchal City-Making
Leslie Kern teaches feminist geography, but she is under no illusion that straightforward solutions can magically cure the imbalance and violence baked into our...
Sunday Video: Skid Row, Explained
https://youtu.be/rKo8Sv99MkM
Los Angeles’ Skid Row was not an inevitability, it was a policy. Johnny Harris explains how this district of tragic poverty came to be....
Mount Baker Lowe’s Should Host Affordable Housing, Not an Amazon Warehouse
News that Amazon was planning a large distribution center in Mount Baker caught fire last week, and many people were rightfully outraged. This important...