The Key to Increasing City Hospitality
What is your least favorite thing about Paris? I bet it is either the traffic or the people. And what makes Lisbon so great...
Map of the Week: Seattle’s Street Typologies
The Seattle Department of Transportation's right-of-way improvement manual just got a big upgrade, and it's big news for street design nerds. The new version,...
Fridaygram: Japanese Shotengai
Shotengai are a type of shopping arcade found in Japan. Their varied layouts provide both a safe pedestrian experience and true mixed shopping capabilities...
Envisioning an I-5 Lid in the U District
Lid I-5 hosted a charrette on September 16th dedicated to sketching out a design for a freeway lid on the stretch of Interstate 5...
Event Today: Shape the future of art and activation of Bell Street Park
We're nearing a year since the opening of the 4-block Bell Street Park between 1st and 5th Avenue in the Belltown neighborhood of downtown...
Bothell Preserves Main Street Pilot, Discarding Arguments About Hurting Transit
In June of 2020, the City of Bothell closed a one-block stretch of Main Street in its downtown to motor vehicles, opening the space...
Measuring Success on the Urban Villages Strategy, Part 1: What It’s All About
Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 in a three-part series on measuring the success of Seattle’s urban village strategy. For the the 22 independent indicators,...
Observing People in Pike Place, Part 1
Article Note: This is the first installment of a series on observations of people in Pike Place. Part 1 focuses on existing design features...