Seattle/King County: 3rd Largest Homeless Population In 2013 HUD Report
(There’s a lot of data in the 2013 HUD report on homelessness. This is part 1 of The Urbanist’s series to better understand this data....
Looking Behind the Common Sense Elements of City Life
Introduction
Last month, in Moustiers Sainte Marie, France, I watched several shopkeepers return a lost young bird to a part of town closer to its natural...
Measuring Housing Need Compared to Job Growth
Trulia's blog provides another important contribution about housing costs. The most recent post includes the graph above. This graph reinforces the evidence that the price...
Reminder: Vote “FOR” the Seattle Metropolitan Park District
A few weeks ago, we ran a guest article by Michael Maddux in support of Proposition 1--the measure to fully fund park maintenance and...
Aufstockung: Innovative Density
Aufstockung is a German term for a vertical addition. That is, an increase in height by the addition of one or more floors to...
Vote “For” the Seattle Metropolitan Park District
This primary election, Seattle voters will answer a question: do we believe that parks and community centers are an essential service, and a priority...
Incentive Zoning Program Review
In order to examine the Incentive Zoning (IZ) Program, the city hired analysts to model some different outcomes based on various assumptions. The analysts...
Cross-Sound Passenger Ferry Service to Return
Kitsap Transit is seeking public comment on its long awaited restoration of cross-Sound passenger only fast ferry service to Downtown Seattle. Among the three routes...