What We're Reading

What We’re Reading: Changing Times, Oops, and Yes To Car Tabs

Density debate: Is gentle density enough? Car-free streets: Will car-free streets be the norm soon? Changing times: After 40 years, a newsstand at Pike Place Market...

What We’re Reading: The First White President

The First White President: Ta-Nehisi Coates lays bare white supremacy and the racism coursing through this country's veins in this excellent long read in The...

What We’re Reading: Build Housing, Reduced Fares, and H Mart!

Build housing: Previous contributor to The Urbanist Ron Davis says that the only way to solve homelessness is to build more homes. TOD WMATA: Washington,...

What We’re Reading: Pausing Outsourcing, Curb Space, and Piloting Solutions

Housing for all: Advocates are asking the Washington State Legislature for another $100 million to address homelessness. Pausing a race to the bottom: Sound Transit is stepping...

What We’re Reading: Still Stay at Home, Rise of the Bike, and Vilnius Goes...

Purple Line preview: Maryland's Purple Line light rail project, an extension of the Washington Metrorail, is set to see the first railcars this year. LA...

What We’re Reading: Urbanist Gifts, World-Class Subway Art, And Building Shadowing

The future is here: A Spanish city has installed a 3-D printed bridge. Speed control: Lower speeds come to Delridge Way in West Seattle. Converting space: Edmonton...

What We’re Reading: Pedestrianizing Oxford Street, Uber’s Anti-Urban Plot, and New Mobility Playbook

Homeless youth center: Seattle Central College's South Annex is planned to be a homeless youth center. Advancing inclusion: Inclusionary zoning appears to be providing positive...

What We’re Reading: Free Transit, Bike Portland, and Sprawling Carbon

Free transit: Katie Wilson of the Transit Riders Union talks free transit. NEC improvements: There's a new plan for the Northeast Corridor that could improve...