What We're Reading

What We’re Reading: 25,000 Friends, False Choices, And Waterfront For All

25,000 friends: Sacramento is getting serious about maintaining and improving the city's tree canopy. Still shaking: Initial numbers on the Northeast Seattle bus restructure are out,...

What We’re Reading: Landmark Policy, Mending Communities, And The Hottest Month

Choo-choo preview: The Seattle Times gets to go on ride-along at the unfinished stations and tunnel ($) of Northgate Link; the last leg of digging to...

What We’re Reading: Rose Quarter Boondoggle, Unite, and Modest Rent Stabilization

LRT saved: Phoenix voters defeated a Koch-backed effort to block light rail expansion in the city, ensuring that projects will continue moving forward. At risk...

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: Beg Buttons, Artistic Land Banking, and Road Rage

Increasing rate: The car ownership rate in America is higher now than it was before the Great Recession. Beg buttons: An anonymous group has posted...

What We’re Reading: Company Town Planning, Pike Mural, And Unfunded

Company town planning: Could Facebook learn from the company towns of old? The other bikeshare: LimeBike, a bikeshare competitor to Spin, is set to launch...

What We’re Reading: Rendering Better Streets, Vancity Wants Higher, and Minneapolis 2040

Rendering better streets: A Twitter user is using the professional version of DALL-E to render better streets in cities. New WMATA leader: Washington, D.C.'s transit...

What We’re Reading: Green Power, Addressing Homelessness, And Incompatible Design

Green power: Rhode Island is home to the nation's first offshore wind farm and it could be the genesis for more to come in the US. Ranking...