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Social Welfare

Sunday Video: Tourists Love ‘Live Like A Local’ Travel. Do Locals?

https://youtu.be/8BGABFTKHpM Touristification on Lisbon has been swift, leaving many locals to wonder how they fit in with the city. With the global rise of tourism,...

Pike Place Market Expands With MarketFront, Tour On Saturday

The evolution of Pike Place Market continues with a physical expansion of the market. In late June, the market heralded the opening of its...

Op-Ed: Why I Am Proposing Short-Term Rental Regulation

Urbanists believe in the power of cities to bring people together, sparking social, cultural and economic innovation. Urbanists support dense, walkable and transit-friendly neighborhoods...

Seattle Council Considers Residential Mandatory Housing Affordability

Earlier this month, the Seattle City Council's Planning, Land Use, and Zoning (PLUZ) Committee deliberated on the details of the proposed Mandatory Housing Affordability-Residential...

Everett Doubles Local Bus Fares

Everett Transit is in the midst of a major restructuring effort for the kind of network and service that the transit agency will provide...

Seattle City Council Notes: New Firearms Rules and Tax, City Enters Into Affordable Housing...

At a general legislative session yesterday, the Seattle City Council met to discuss a packed agenda. Topics ranged from the waterfront public space initiative to all-gender...

Midweek Video: Planning for Aging Communities

Planning for aging communities is increasingly important. Vox visits Weesp, a small city in The Netherlands, to understand how the "dementia village" model works...

Immigrants Make Cities Safer

Immigrants and refugees have been in the spotlight recently as targets of President Donald Trump and the so-called "alt-right" (i.e., white supremacists). From the...