Land Use

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...
The stole the name of our baseball team, now they’re eating Seattle’s lunch out on a newly built restaurant patio. (City of Coquitlam)

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...