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What We're Reading

What We’re Reading: Cities for Kids, Dark Money, and Unprepared

Cities for kids: How to design cities for children. Unfair housing policy: Work requirements and higher monthly payments may come to social housing recipients. Downside of...

What We’re Reading: Tall Timber Towers

Tall timber tower: Lever Architecture has proposed a 130-foot timber-framed tower in Portland's Pearl District. It would be one of tallest wood towers in...
Architectural ambiance from above at Chophouse Row. (Credit: The Urbanist)

What We’re Reading: No Parking Minimums, Tree Train, and Maglev

No parking minimums: St. Paul has eliminated car parking minimums. Should other cities follow suit? Tragic fire: A tragic Tukwila apartment fire killed three residents...

What We’re Reading: Affordable Housing Debate, Ferry Progress, and Westlake Tragedy

Inevitable?: Is transit ridership loss inevitable? Yonah Freemark does a U.S.–France comparison. Parisian architecture: Why are Parisians outraged by an addition to the famed Gare...

What We’re Reading: Farewell 2017, Hello 2018

Sky-high in 2017: 2017 set a new record for the most new skyscrapers in a single year. Reducing violations: Seattle's pilot private dockless rental bike...

What We’re Reading: Political Grandstanding

More studies: The Cheasty mountain bike and hiking trails project isn't a done deal yet; Seattle's Hearing Examiner says that more studies are needed...

What We’re Reading: Lighter Rail Rules, Peanutabout, And Super Green

Chop chop: Trump is the new hero of timber country. Spreading democracy: Seattle's democracy vouchers are now open to candidates running in the local election...

What We’re Reading: Fight Climate Change, Bridging Divides, And Make Tracks

Fight climate change: A recent poll of Americans shows that a strong majority--regardless of political affiliation--believe that transportation departments should take carbon pollution into...