Land Use

Your Friendly Neighborhood Industrial Use, An Introduction

In this series of four articles, I am going to lay out an argument that Seattle should mix industrial uses in our residential and...

Sunday Video: The Hidden Traffic Metric That Makes Cities Worse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEE4bSWBHdQ Dave Amos of City Beautiful explains what level-of-service is and the pitfalls of using it mitigate transportation impacts from new development. He also talks...

Urbanizing the Economy

In a previous article, I wrote about vertical farming and the technology’s ability to urbanize agriculture. Vertical farming facilitates the urbanization of agriculture with...
Look carefully, what appears to be a single family residence here is actually a duplex. (Photo by author)

Urbanist Scavenger Hunt: Find the “Missing Middle”

The Urbanist is kicking off its new weekly scavenger hunt series with a call for readers to search out examples of "missing middle" housing...

Digital Design Review Aims to Keep Housing Pipeline Flowing During COVID Crisis

Seattle's design review process has been on a hold for about a month now due distancing measures to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. Today, Mayor...

Sunday Video: The Rise Of The Stadium District

https://youtu.be/zczyEkkjvZk Dave Amos at City Beautiful takes a look at the newish stadium district trend that pairs new arenas and stadiums with mixed-used, urban development....

Sunday Video: How San Francisco Erased A Neighborhood

https://youtu.be/tcsdglJFT0M Vox shares a story of colonization, racism, and gentrification that created and then erased a Filipino neighborhood in San Francisco. This story was repeated...
BNSF Railyard in Interbay. (Photo by Doug Trumm)

The BINMIC Industrial Plan is Dead

Interbay is a collision of changing urban landscapes, expensive deteriorating infrastructure, and confused layers of authority.  As the smaller of Seattle’s two industrial centers,...