This is a guest post provided by Erika Malone from Homestead Community Land Trust, an organization working to provide permanently affordable home ownership in Seattle. If you have questions about these issues or if you'd like to learn more about what they do, you can find information here. If you...

This is a guest post from Chuck Wolfe and was originally published on myurbanist.com Going forward, let’s not discount the influence of history’s recurring themes in how we redevelop the urban realm. So many discussions about cities today look only forward, without fully considering the past.  We presume ways of life...

Hal and Kyle Griffith, the family that brought us the Great Wheel, and Matt Roewe, the architect that proposed the Capitol Hill gondola, unveiled plans for a new waterfront gondola system this Tuesday. The system will consist of three stations—one at Freeway Park next to the convention center, one at...

The environmental group 350.org is pushing the “Fossil Free” divestment campaign to get educational and religious institutions, city and state governments, and other institutions that serve the public good to divest their stock portfolios from fossil fuel companies. They believe that it’s wrong for these institutions to profit from...

During the month of February, Sound Transit held two open houses about East Link Light Rail project. The first open house discussed the South Bellevue segment while the second discussed the East Main Station. South Bellevue Open House South Bellevue's northbound bus issue was solved. The previous design required northbound buses to do...

Look around a residential neighbourhood in a typical American city, and you will see an ocean of single-family detached homes. There is a myth that it has always been this way. In reality, many cities have historically allowed a diverse mix of buildings and uses in residential neighbourhoods: duplexes,...

Bertha may be dead in the water, but the Seattle Waterfront is moving full steam ahead. Construction work on the Elliott Bay Seawall is already taking place near Bertha's tunnel area. It's a delicate task when working within just feet of open sea and the walls of a tunnel. With...

  "Are you righteous? Kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that I was, too. Do you imagine your sufferings will be less because you loved goodness? Truth?" -Malick I've driven buses across the Aurora Bridge about a thousand times. Every time I do so, without...