Natalie Bicknell Argerious
Natalie Bicknell Argerious (she/her) is a reporter and podcast host at The Urbanist. She previously served as managing editor. A passionate urban explorer since childhood, she loves learning how to make cities more inclusive, vibrant, and environmentally resilient. You can often find her wandering around Seattle's Central District and Capitol Hill with her dogs and cat. Email her at natalie [at] theurbanist [dot] org.
But development outside of Washington State's urban growth areas continues to place pressure on an ecologically rich, but fragile ecosystem.
Congress has passed a funding bill for fiscal year 2023 that provides a $19 million boost for Puget Sound Action Agenda, the long-term recovery plan developed by the Puget Sound...
Earlier this month, a mixture of snow and freezing rain set a stark backdrop as 30 residents, including families with children, couples, singles, and people with pets, moved into their new heated and insulated homes at Riverton Tiny House Village in Tukwila. Since then, Riverton’s villagers have had to...
We are wrapping up the year, and our second podcast season, with an episode devoted to hygge and the holidays. Yes, we did have to look up the pronunciation of hygge -- and practice it -- to get it right on the air.
For those of you who are...
Seattle is a city of markets. There’s the world famous Pike Place Market, of course, and our extensive assortment of weekly and seasonal farmer’s markets is the envy of many larger metropoles. Yet despite being regularly ranked among the most hygge, or coziest, American cities, Seattle lacks what is...
At the junction of SR 520 and Montlake Boulevard in Seattle, construction crews are busy at work laying the foundation for the Montlake lid, the first roof built over a freeway in Seattle since the completion of the I-90 lid in the 1990s. When completed, the Montlake lid will...
But, meanwhile, the Burien City Council voted to pump the brakes on similar projects.
This week ecoTHRIVE received some very good news related to its innovative model of delivering deeply affordable housing, which The Urbanist reported on last year. Washington State Housing Finance Commission (WSHFC) decided to finance their request...
In mid-September Urbanist reporter Kevin Le wrote about the Tacoma City Council's plan to create 10-block buffer zones around the city's nine emergency homeless shelters in which encampments and the storing of belonging by unhoused people would be prohibited on public property. At the time of publication, the introduction...
There may still only be a faint whisper of autumn in air, but despite the warm weather across Puget Sound, it's undeniable that we are shifting into the final months of 2022. That seasonal progression has put me into a reflective state of mind, and so as I prepared...