Event Today: Belltown and Denny Triangle Public Realm Community Workshop
Nearly one month ago, the Lake2Bay Coalition hosted a public realm exploration walk to collect people's opinion on the public spaces around Belltown and...
California Is For People: Promenades, Plazas, and Piers
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In a recent trip, I traveled south to California for a...
Inside Seattle’s Greenest Commercial Building: The Bullitt Center
"We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past... We have the technology to power our future in ways that don't...
Micro Housing Part 3: Arguments in Opposition
Article Note: This is the third installment of a five-part series on micro housing, see Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, and Part 5 as well.
The...
Reenvisioning the Public Realm of South Lake Union, Belltown, and Denny Triangle
When the population of a city doubles, its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. As noted in a paper by the MIT Media Lab,...
Tell SDOT and Metro How to Make Bell Street Park Better
When Bell Street Park opened in 2014, it was one of Seattle's first explorations into designing streets as "shared space". Modeled after Dutch "woonerfs"...
Pike Place Expansion is Good Urbanism
Last week, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to commit $34 million towards the Pike Place Market expansion project. The new low-rise, mixed-use development...
The Jimi Hendrix Park: Designed For Rock and Roll
Seattle is getting closer to realizing a long-sought goal, completing construction of Jimi Hendrix Park. On March 19th, the Jimi Hendrix Park Foundation announced...