Doug Trumm
Doug Trumm is publisher of The Urbanist. An Urbanist writer since 2015, he dreams of pedestrian streets, bus lanes, and a mass-timber building spree to end our housing crisis. He graduated from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington in 2019. He lives in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood and loves to explore the city by foot and by bike.
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 Atlantic that is also an except of his forthcoming book, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (available October 3).
End Of DACA Protests: Citylab covered...
The Seattle City Council is hosting a double feature at SIFF Cinema Uptown Auditorium 3 on Monday September 11. The first public hearing for the Uptown rezone will start at 5pm. The second will cover the design review improvement package and start at 7pm. We urge you to attend or...
Amazon announced yesterday that the company is planning the search for a second headquarters in North America where it promises as many as 50,000 jobs. This launched a bout of hand-wringing from Washington state politicians worried the tech giant would bolt on us, reassuring themselves and Amazon that Seattle...
Don't say they didn't ask for it.
First, Bothell residents asked the City of Bothell to design Bothell Way NE as a walkable street to keep the walkable vibe of old downtown.
Then, Seattle Times transportation reporter Mike Lindblom, who detailed the not very walkable design, asked to hear The Urbanist's...
We wanted to remind you that our September meetup next week will be headlined by Teresa Mosqueda, our endorsed candidate for Seattle City Council Position 8 (at-large). She comes to the race with a long history of successful union organizing and social justice advocacy (such as her leadership of...
Seattle City Council candidates Teresa Mosqueda and Jon Grant will expound on their platform will special attention to housing at a forum organized by Welcoming Wallingford. Paul Chapman will moderate and field some questions from the audience.
Welcoming Wallingford--of which I'm a founding member--is a group launched early this year...
Seattle made history in 1919 with the first general strike in American history. The strike stemmed from the industrial boom of World War I during which the federal government froze wages for defense-related industries and promised shipyard workers wage increases after the war to keep them from striking. The...
Community pressure has saved the Youth Reach Out Center (YROC) in Othello from a cloud of uncertainity. On Tuesday, youth ministers at Othello's Youth Reach Out Center (YROC) held a townhall and protest against Union Gospel Mission (UGM) pulling funding for the youth services program amid budget shortfalls. The...