Call to Action: Pass MASS Package, Fare Share, and Mosqueda’s Missing Middle Housing Budget...
The Seattle budget process is chugging along with another public comment session tomorrow Wednesday at 3:30pm. Soon Seattle City Council will be making their...
Join The Urbanist for a Walking Tour of Ballard
Ballard is in the midst of rapid change with scores of projects in the planning and development stages, but it is also one of Seattle's...
Women Shaping Seattle: An Interview With Lisa Picard
Below is an interview with Lisa Picard, which is part of our Women Shaping Seattle series exploring how women have changed and continue to change...
A Better Bel-Red
Bellevue should plan for high quality public spaces, walkability, and dense transit-oriented development--plus add an in-fill light rail station in Bel-Red.
Walk down Bel-Red Road...
Sunday Video: 137 Years of Sprawl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u7H1helosI
Los Angeles by NYU STERN URBANIZATION PROJECT on YouTube.
New York University Stern has studied 30 global cities and their urbanization patterns. So far the...
Sunday Video: Why So Many Suburbs Look The Same
https://youtu.be/vWhYlu7ZfYM
In this Vox episode of Almanac, Phil Edwards explains why so many suburbs look the same. Principally, the advent of federal financing, the cul-de-sac,...
Redevelopable Capacity: Disguising Correlation As Causation
In a previous article, I responded to Dan Bertolet's rebuttal of my essay outlining why urbanists must support linkage fees. My primary argument, that land is inelastic, means that...
Metro Everett Framework Moves Forward with Draft Plan
The City of Everett is moving ahead with its subarea planning effort to dramatically increase development capacity and remake the city's downtown core. Known...