Plans and Policy

For the past few years, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has been working on a plan to extend the First Hill Streetcar northward. Terminus options...

(There’s a lot of data in the 2013 HUD report on homelessness. This is part 1 of The Urbanist’s series to better understand this data....

Introduction Last month, in Moustiers Sainte Marie, France, I watched several shopkeepers return a lost young bird to a part of town closer to its natural...

Trulia's blog provides another important contribution about housing costs. The most recent post includes the graph above. This graph reinforces the evidence that the price...

A few weeks ago, we ran a guest article by Michael Maddux in support of Proposition 1--the measure to fully fund park maintenance and...

Aufstockung is a German term for a vertical addition. That is, an increase in height by the addition of one or more floors to...

This primary election, Seattle voters will answer a question: do we believe that parks and community centers are an essential service, and a priority...

In order to examine the Incentive Zoning (IZ) Program, the city hired analysts to model some different outcomes based on various assumptions. The analysts...