Sunday Video: An Urban Planner Plays SimCity
https://youtu.be/LUQaCoxybW8
In this extended short, Dave Amos of City Beautiful takes on the old school classic SimCity from the perspective of a professional planner 20...
Call to Action: Attend the Backyard Cottage Public Hearing at Seattle City Hall Tuesday
The first public hearing on Councilmember Mike O'Brien's backyard cottage proposal is Tuesday June 11th, and housing activists under the umbrella group More Options...
South Lake Union Woonerf Moves to Full Council
Woonerfs are designed to be living streets, giving space for pedestrians and bicyclists along slower moving cars. They feature traffic-calming measures such as curbless,...
Urbanism 101: Solutions to the Housing Crisis and Bad Zoning
Restrictive zoning has contributed to the housing crisis across the U.S. and exacerbated inequality, but solutions exist to undo the damage. Here's an overview.
Sunday Video: Why Did Railroad Companies Mass Produce Cities?
https://youtu.be/9viTTRd8iP8
Dave Amos documents the history of railway towns in America in this video. Railway companies in the 1800s expanded quickly to the West, platting...
Share the City: Support the Full HALA Recommendations
Last week, amid much histrionics, The Seattle Times leaked a draft report of the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) Committee. Owen chimed in...
City Council Reviews MHA Rezone Proposals for Districts 1, 2, 3, and 5
This article is the second in a two-part series. See the first part for Districts 4, 6, and 7.
On Wednesday, the Seattle City Council...
Telosa: What We Can Learn from Utopian Myths
As a child, I watched a documentary at school about Arcosanti, a utopian city in the desert founded on the idea that environmental sustainability...