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...
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...
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,...