Sunday Video: Let Joni’s Light Shine
Joni Mitchell is an urbanist. Who else could write a line like: "Shine on worldwide traffic jams, honking day and night. Shine on another...
Video: Seattle City Council District 1 Mobility Forum
On Wednesday June 14, candidates for the District 1 Seattle City Council seat faced off in a mobility-focused forum co-hosted by The Urbanist. Phil...
Sunday Video: What Is Vision Zero?
The term “Vision Zero” gets bandied about a lot in transportation and urbanist circles, but to the unitiated the concept isn’t necessarily obvious or...
Sunday Video: The Inventor’s Dream House
It's always interesting when one of the architecture channels has an opening drone shot that makes you go, "Wait, I know that leafy hill...
Sunday Video: Rethinking How To Measure Cities
The Urbanist does a lot of work with the data of cities. From tunnel budgets to climate impacts to new developments, there's numbers all...
Sunday Video: Renovating an Abandoned High School into Apartments
Purchasing an abandoned high school for $100,000, three developers carved out a lovely 31 unit apartment building in the Pittsburgh suburb of Homestead, Pennsylvania....
Sunday Video: Historic District Abuse
This week, Dave Amos over at City Beautiful does an excellent job discussing the history and pitfalls of historic districts. From their early application...
Sunday Video: Is Coffee Bean Soup?
While a non-trivial portion of Emerald City's economy (and, honestly, personality) is coffee based, we don't often take the time to consider what our...