Sunday Video: An Ode to Street Trees
https://youtu.be/uoRsVdIyhUM
What’s so great about street trees? City Beautiful offers some positive benefits of them in this video short.
Sunday Video: Design For Inclusive Public Life
https://youtu.be/h5u7GuMRw_Q
How do we design for inclusive urban public spaces and life? Jeff Risom from Gehl explains this paradigm.
Seattle Post-Viaduct: First Look at Waterfront Overlook Walk and Pavilion
On April 19th the proposed design for the new Overlook Walk and Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion went before the Design Commission and was approved...
Trees + Density = Livability
Last October, Seattle Weekly republished an article headlined, ‘Will Seattle Finally Protect its tree canopy’, which was followed a few days later by Seattle Mag’s...
Get Thee to Middle Fork, Cyclists
Skirting the eastern edges of the greater Seattle area, the Snoqualmie River flows down from the Cascades through a broad river valley spread with...
Is It Time for a Radical Rethinking of Open Space in Seattle?
Seattle’s urban villages suffer not only from inadequate space to build multifamily housing, but there is also a massive open space inequity versus-single family...
Klyde Warren Park: Experiencing the Gold Standard for Freeway Lids
An important part of my advocacy for lidding Interstate 5 includes letting folks know about successful lid projects around the country. Lid I-5's co-chair...
Public Risks Being Left Behind as Downtown Seattle Land Runs Out
“Buy land, they're not making it anymore.” - Mark Twain
As Seattle's development boom continues without any sign of stopping, the city is rapidly approaching a...