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...
Aerial rendering of Bel-red neighborhood with TOD near Link stations.

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...