Sunday Video: Amsterdam’s Latest Knip
Amsterdam is marching toward becoming a car-free city. In their latest effort, the city government is trialing a six-week closure of Weesperstraat, the busiest...
Sunday Video: Camera Enforcement as Lifesaving Technology
Traffic camera enforcement technology isn’t popular among motorists, but there’s a lot of upsides to camera enforcement of traffic regulations, such as speed limits....
Video: Lunch and Learn with Ron Davis, Seattle Council Candidate
Ron Davis is running for the Seattle City Council in District 4 on a progressive, stridently urbanist platform and he shared his positions on...
Sunday Video: Narrowing Streets in North America
North American cities are known for their wide, gridded streets which stand in stark contrast to European city streets that tend to be narrower...
Sunday Video: Bad Takes to Justify Bad Cities
There's a segment of Americans and Canadians that like to say that good urbanism can't be replicated in North American cities because their countries...
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...