A canopy shelters the Bellevue Transit Center with downtown office towers in the background.

Bellevue Unveils Bold Growth Strategy for 152,000 Additional Homes

Through a mix of highrise, midrise, and missing middle housing, Bellevue's new comprehensive plan would provide capacity for an extra 152,000 homes and 185,000 jobs, potentially allowing the city's population to more than double over the next 20 years.

Sunday Video: Are Cities Like Organisms?

https://youtu.be/b-oL5Tw9M7A Dave Amos looks into the metaphor that says cities are just like an organism.

Midweek Video: The Surprising Way Small Towns Are Disappearing

https://youtu.be/8YVBBkBcdrg Dave Amos discusses small towns in America and the surprising way many are disappearing.

Seattle’s Newest Inductees for the Hall of Fame (For Infuriating Maps)

Seattle has a history of infuriating maps. For its relatively young age as an official municipality, the place has produced amazing blood-boiling cartography. Some maps...

Industrial [Parks]: Seattle’s Green Edges

For most folks, their mental image of a city park is somewhat focused, and kinda Victorian. It’s an Olmsted designed rolling green of trees...

Sunday Video: San Antonio’s River Walk As Walkable Urbanism

City Beautiful visits San Antonio to evaluate the city's river walk as walkable urbanism. The city's riverwalk isn't the only one of its kind,...
Yonder Cider's street-side garage bar in Greenwood. (Yonder Cider)

Garage Businesses Are Keys to Covid Recovery

After a year of pandemic lockdowns, it’s hard to think of anything that we can’t do in our homes. Work, baking, exercise, school, hedgehog...
A view of development along SR-7 in Pierce County. (Google Maps)

Pierce County Updates Plans for Central Urban Growth Areas

In October, the Pierce County Council adopted updates to the community plans of Frederickson, Mid-County, Parkland-Spanaway-Midland, and South Hill that should encourage denser development...