City Nature Challenge Kicks Off April 30
Participate in an annual international effort to document the biodiversity found in cities.
We tend to think of cities as the domain of homo sapiens,...
Catch Up on Bellevue’s Park Development Spree and Incoming Parks
Alongside a flurry of commercial and to a lesser degree residential development, the City of Bellevue has been improving and expanding its park system...
Leslie Kern’s ‘Feminist City’ Offers Critical Corrective to Patriarchal City-Making
Leslie Kern teaches feminist geography, but she is under no illusion that straightforward solutions can magically cure the imbalance and violence baked into our...
New Report Highlights the Success of Community-Led Public Spaces
Lately, I've been missing Pratt Park, one of my favorite public spaces in Seattle. While I haven't gone anywhere, and neither has the park,...
New Bellevue and Woodinville Eastrail Segments Anticipated to Open in 2021
Underway in the Eastside is an effort to unify isolated railway-turned trails into a regionally unrivaled trail. Named Eastrail in 2019, the planned trail...
Shoreline Sends Parks Expansion to April 27th Ballot
In January, the Shoreline City Council voted to place a park improvement and park land acquisition bond measure on the April 27, 2021 special...
South Lake Union Community Center Open House Returns with New Design Ideas
Seattle Parks and Recreation has reopened the South Lake Union Community Center open house. This community center comes out of the Mercer Megablock deal,...
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...