Land Use

Sunday Video: Should Cities Be Circular?

Dave Amos of City Beautiful talks about some examples of circular cities and the history of circle cities. Whether circle cities are deeply practical...

Developer Fail: More Parking Than Apartment Units Isn’t TOD

When Link opened in 2009, it was expected to be a catalyst for transit-oriented development (TOD) in the Rainier Valley: MLK Way is littered...

Linkage Fees are a supply-side solution: Or, how land owners end up paying for...

Linkage Fees, proposed fees on new development to pay for affordable housing, have a lot of critics. And the critics' arguments are probably all...
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Sound Transit Prepares to Unpause Nine Project Actions and Moves to Surplus Angle Lake...

On Thursday, the Sound Transit Board of Directors met to decide on the fate of more than a dozen paused capital project actions. Nine...

Does the NHL Need to Be at Northgate’s Front Door?

At a press conference earlier this week, the CEO of National Hockey League (NHL) Seattle announced Seattle's new NHL team will be siting their...

Sunday Video: Skid Row, Explained

https://youtu.be/rKo8Sv99MkM Los Angeles’ Skid Row was not an inevitability, it was a policy. Johnny Harris explains how this district of tragic poverty came to be....

Sunday Video: CityNerd Rebuts Sprawl Evangelism, Reviews 10 Densest Cities

CityNerd's Ray Delahanty rebutted Conor Dougherty's New York Times pro-sprawl op-ed. Via his spicy top 10 list," Delahanty shows how density generates high-amenity, livable neighborhoods that are far less car dependent than the sprawling suburbs that Dougherty celebrates in his hot take.

Passive(haus) Aggressive Incentives Could Jumpstart Green Building

As Seattle’s economy adapts to the crisis of the global pandemic, our city still faces pressures of a growing population. Articles have littered the...