Parks and Public Space

Sunday Video: Train Stations Are Making A Comeback, But Why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-YGVytC-7s In this video, Dave from City Beautiful talks about how historic train stations are experiencing a renaissance in America and how they're leading to...

PSRC Seeking Comment on $17.5 Million in Grants for Bike and Pedestrian Projects

On Thursday, the Puget Sound Regional Council released a slate of proposed bicycle and pedestrian projects for public comment that the agency plans to fund....

Downtown Seattle On-Street Parking Swapped for Pavement Park and Food Trucks

A new pavement park is slated to open in Downtown Seattle later this month. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) recently removed on-street parking...

Halloween Exposes the Benefits of Density

Every trick-or-treater is an urbanist on Halloween. Why leg it between spaced out suburban ramblers when you can find a street where the houses...

Lid I-5 Awarded $48,000 Grant for Community Outreach

Lid I-5 has been awarded a $48,000 grant from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods to further our campaign of reconnecting communities divided by Interstate...

Convention Center Acquiesces to Coalition with $83 Million Benefits Package

One of the biggest questions swirling around the new $1.6 billion expansion of the Washington State Convention center--apart from whether it will actually get...

First Look at Pike Pine Renaissance: Act 1 Concepts

On Tuesday night, Seattle's Office of the Waterfront and the Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) presented their concepts for what is being called Pike Pine...

Sunday Video: Shared Spaces in NYC

New York shows what large cities can do with major streets. Near Madison Square Park, New York has transformed Broadway into a shared street...