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Sunday Video: Suburbs That Don’t Suck – Streetcar Suburbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0 Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes talks suburbs and how not all are the same. Slaughter particularly emphasizes how streetcar suburbs and suburbs that...

Meetup Video: March 2021 with Colleen Echohawk

https://youtu.be/_7v6YTAZ9MQ Seattle Mayoral candidate Colleen Echohawk joined The Urbanist for the March monthly meetup. During the meeting, she discussed wide-ranging priorities that she would pursue...

Midweek Video: How Highway Noise Barriers Don’t Solve All

https://youtu.be/e0naL8eJmLA Highways are the bane of cities creating all kinds of awful pollution, including noise pollution. To mitigate noise, sound barrier walls have been installed...

Sunday Video: How Radical Gardeners Took Back New York City

https://youtu.be/_g2CaF12xxw Vox tells the story of how two women led movements to plant street trees and commission community gardens in New York City in a...

Midweek Video: WSDOT’s New SR-520/I-5 Connection for Transit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaLUcx1gwVs&list=PLEvVhy_eoUuDXFW0dBmX-20VcHPH7YF60&index=26 The Washington State Department of Transportation has awarded a $68 million contract to Walsh Construction to build a new ramp connection between SR-520 and...

Sunday Video: The Dark Legacy of This Iconic Baseball Stadium

https://youtu.be/DxJuuWUzQzI In Los Angeles, the history behind Dodger Stadium is marred by forced displacement of Latinos in several neighborhoods. The initial displacement was for government-funded...

Meetup Video: June 2021 with Lorena González

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfnwcpmTDpQ Seattle City Council President M. Lorena González was first elected to her citywide seat in 2015. This year, she is running for Mayor. In this...

Sunday Video: A Race to Seven Modes in Seattle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYnJdylkjPM Dave Amos visited Seattle very recently and rode seven kinds of transit in Seattle. He wanted to see how long it would take to...