Parks and Public Space

The Kirkland City Council this week voted to hit pause on pursuing options that would convert a stretch of Park Lane in downtown Kirkland...

https://youtu.be/dgJYWleJC84 In this short video, several public space experts and community leaders explain why the campaign to lid I-5 is an important opportunity for Seattle...

This year’s Seattle Design Festival, opened on September 10th, with the theme of ‘Design Change’. Given that 2016 marks 100 years since the first...

The City of Seattle put out a Request for Proposals (RFPs) to renovate Seattle Center Coliseum (better known as KeyArena despite the bank's lapse...

BelRed combines a nascent South Lake Union, SoDo, and the International District. Spring District Station has a South Lake Union feel with tech offices emerging from a large light industrial presence. Both have some hidden gems.

Melanie LaPlant Dressel Park opened on April 11 as a beautiful park far away from the rest of the city. An elevated, wide ribbon of concrete — the roaring I-705 freeway — separates the park from its users. Tacoma should remove this barrier.

While we are a big proponent of lidding I-5 to cut off the sights and sounds of freeway traffic (or even removing it) and...

https://youtu.be/QaIOfgz8FVY In this video, Vox explains how New York settled on Manhattan’s modern grid.