Sunday Video: The Trains That Subsidize Suburbia
https://youtu.be/vxWjtpzCIfA
Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes shows how Toronto's GO Transit commuter rail is primarily setup to subsidize the suburbs without providing real, regular...
Ideas in Open Streets: Coquitlam, B.C.
Coquitlam, British Columbia is letting its restaurants and stores spill outside and take over their parking lots. In the name of social distancing, of...
Builders Continue Pivot to Housing in Downtown Bellevue
In shift away from office and toward housing growth, Downtown Bellevue's development pipeline has seen nearly 4,000 additional homes proposed and more than two million square feet of office space abandoned in just the last couple of years. Once built, the pipeline of 14,000 homes would more than double the population of downtown.
Mitigating Displacement: The Edith Macefield Story
Those who oppose development in Seattle have no greater symbol than the so-called "Up House" in Ballard where Edith Macefield held out against the...
Looking Behind the Common Sense Elements of City Life
Introduction
Last month, in Moustiers Sainte Marie, France, I watched several shopkeepers return a lost young bird to a part of town closer to its natural...
Midweek Video: What America Gets Wrong When Building Transit
In this video, Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes walks through many of the common mistakes that America and Canada make when planning and...
Unraveling the Problem Called Interbay
Early this year, a call went out that the Interbay Armory Advisory Committee was looking for community proposals on what to do with 25...
More Courage To Pedestrianization
Could E Pike Street between 12th Avenue and Broadway look like this pedestrian zone in Boston?
The trend towards a more walk-able and pedestrian-friendly Seattle is...







