Parks and Public Space

Sunday Video: An Ode to Street Trees

https://youtu.be/uoRsVdIyhUM What’s so great about street trees? City Beautiful offers some positive benefits of them in this video short.
I-405 northbound car traffic with bridges and skyscrapers in the background.

Bellevue’s New I-405 Interchange Won’t Reduce Congestion

Cities across the country have poured billions and billions into ineffective road infrastructure projects that are leaving them deep in traffic and even deeper...

Your Voice, Your Choice 2018 Has Begun

Seattle's Participatory Budgeting program for parks and street projects, Your Voice, Your Choice, is back for its second year, with a funding increase for...

Canopy-Heavy Green Streets Hold the Key to Climate-Proofing Mobility

Last month, Urbanist reporter Ryan Packer wrote about how the massive SR 99 tunnel project in Seattle is bleeding money due to traffic being...

Seattle Scores 11th in Nation for 2019 ParkScore Index

Seattle continued its strong performance on the Trust for Public Land's ParkScore Index in 2019, holding on to 11th place in the national rankings...

Community Investments In A Growing University District

The University District is increasingly becoming a beneficiary of significant public and non-profit investments. In releasing the updated neighborhood rezone and urban design proposal...

Sunday Video: The Revitalization of Central Melbourne

https://vimeo.com/131396094 Central Melbourne experienced decline in the 1980s, with many residents and businesses moving to the suburbs. The Cerebral City highlights approaches which revitalized the city's public spaces,...

New North Precinct Building: $160 Million, 70% Parking, 88% Staffed With Suburbanites

The Seattle police are in the news again. This time for a lavish new $160 million North Precinct building that The Seattle Times' Brier...