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The View From Nathan's Bus

KVRU Interview: Nathan on Route 7 RapidRide

KVRU's Simon Kidde (a friend, and the son of another friend!) sits down with myself and Metro's Robyn Austin to discuss the impending transition...

Book Awards Event, 10/12: Free & Open to the Public

Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, 7 – 9 p.m.Seattle Central Library, Level 1: Microsoft AuditoriumFree The title kind of says it all. It's like the Oscars,...

The Boring Truths (It’s Not That Bad)

This post is a care package for my colleagues and anyone else who was scared or otherwise put off by a recent spate of...

A Bus Driver Kind of Mind

Why do I love scruffiness, when I am not scruffy? Because these are the strangers who are consistently nicest to me, who treat me plainly,...

Strife in the Afternoon: Nathan on Fights

It all started so innocently. Each person meant well, but each had a stress inside them, a bitterness, that they turned on the others...

Book Talk with Nathan Today August 29th at 12:30pm

Hello, Urbanist friends. In the wake of my book being nominated for the Washington State Book Award, I'm having another book talk at the Greenwood Senior...

Nathan’s TED Talk

https://youtu.be/bxw2P7WbRKE What does it mean to be urbanized? What does living in a city require of us in terms of social engagement, and to what...

Nathan Vass, 2019 Washington State Book Award Finalist

Never in a million years. That's what I thought when we applied for this thing a year ago. A pipe dream. You apply for...