Sunday Video: How Elevated Rail Makes Cities Better
In North America, modern rail transit usually avoids conventional elevated lines in dense cities and even suburbs. Reece Martin of RMTransit discusses what makes elevated rail so good.
Planting Seeds for a City Center in Lynnwood
When we warned of a stroad growing in Lynnwood due to highway widening plans, it cast a negative light on Lynnwood's plans to develop...
Sunday Video: How Our Food Choices Stack Up In Greenhouse Gas Emissions
https://youtu.be/3lrJYTsKdUM
When it comes to food, our choices in what we eat has significant implications in our greenhouse gas emissions. Vox explains how the emissions...
Snohomish County Sets New 20-Year Community Growth Targets
Snotrac Coalition worries the plan won't put enough growth equitably near high-capacity transit.
Snohomish County planning authorities have all but signed off on new growth...
Building the Compassionate City
We shape our cities, and afterwards our cities shape us, to paraphrase Winston Churchill. In this, he eloquently drew a line between the built...
Sunday Video: Who Really Designs Cities?
https://youtu.be/gsh_d3ypnBU
Using Cities: Skylines as a comparative, Dave Amos looks at the nuts and bolts of who really plans and manages cities in America. It’s...
City of Seattle Purchases 18-Acre Laurelhurst Property, Scuttling Sprawl Plans
The $64 million sale of the hotly contested Talaris property in Laurelhurst surprised housing advocates who had long been fighting sprawl and pushing for a more forward-thinking urban vision. But with considerable roadblocks to redevelopment still in place, Talaris's future remains uncertain.
Seattle Needs A Housing Politics Movement Like Germany’s Wohnungspolitik
Actually, Seattle needed a cohesive and comprehensive Wohnungspolitik 40 years ago, but late is better than never. What is a Wohnungspolitik? The literal translation from German is...