Stephen Fesler
Stephen is a professional urban planner in Puget Sound with a passion for sustainable, livable, and diverse cities. He is especially interested in how policies, regulations, and programs can promote positive outcomes for communities. With stints in great cities like Bellingham and Cork, Stephen currently lives in Seattle. He primarily covers land use and transportation issues and has been with The Urbanist since 2014.
Tonight we're hosting a special presentation on Sustainable Rosengård. Paul Byron Crane, a local landscape architect with the City of Everett, will lead a conversation on Rosengård. We'll learn how this Malmö, Sweden neighborhood has gone from a largely ignored and disengage place to an active and forward-thinking district. You'll can us at GGLO (a local architecture firm)...
https://twitter.com/DewanMKarim/status/533257497495482368
This comic has been making the rounds across the internet recently, and sparks a really interesting discussion about how we use our streets and spaces for people. There are two messages that this comic sends:
We have handed over a lot of space to cars; and
Streets might as well be...
Good news for bikes: Raised crosswalk, better signal timing, and a bike leaning rail will be coming to the Burke Gilman Trail near U Village. Pronto! surpasses 10k bike trips in one month! Cascade Bicycle Club will open a new office and bike center at Magnuson Park.
Tacoma joins the boom:...
Don't miss out on our event for Tuesday where we'll have a presentation on Sustainable Rosengård. Paul Byron Crane, a local landscape architect with the City of Everett, will lead the conversation on Rosengård, a neighborhood of Malmö, Sweden. The story of Rosengård is unique because a small group of disenfranchised refugee women managed...
Community Transit (CT) is proposing significant service changes for 2015 that includes 27,000 new service hours for the network. The agency is proposing to bring Sunday and holiday service back while adding more hours to weekday and Saturday service. This is no doubt very welcome news for riders in Snohomish...
Last week, New York City's citywide standard speed limit dropped from 30 mph to 25 mph under a policy dubbed "Vision Zero". About 95% of streets in the city had previously been designated 30 mph, so this represents a huge shift in speed reduction for New York. Every year,...
On Tuesday, November 18th, we will have a special meeting that includes a presentation from Paul Byron Crane, a local landscape architect with the City of Everett. The presentation will take a look into how Rosengård, a neighborhood of Malmö, Sweden, has managed to transform into a sustainable, collaborative,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl6SOY2gI5U
Discovery Waterfront Cities of the World: Vancouver by jsnspringer on YouTube, h/t Catherine Neill.
A great video by Discovery on urbanism in Vancouver, BC, which talks about gentrification, architecture, housing diversity, social welfare solutions, and more.