Minimum Density Rules
Last summer, the national pharmacy chain CVS decided to enter the Seattle market, building new stores in Lower Queen Anne, Wallingford, and West Seattle....
The Urbanist Case for $15/Hour
Over the past year, there has been a growing faction in Seattle that believes the minimum wage should be higher -- much higher. The...
Compromising Won’t Help Get to $15 Now
It’s the dog days of a Seattle winter, and tempers are growing short. The initial enthusiasm for a $15 an hour minimum wage remains...
Exploding Oil Trains Currently Run Through Downtown Seattle
Two months ago in Casselton, North Dakota, a train carrying crude oil from the Bakken oil fields hit a derailed soybean train on the...
How Does Sound Transit Expand?
Sound Transit, the regional transit agency that builds Link and Sounder rail services and operates a lot of our express buses, is currently updating...
To Achieve Mayor Murray’s Goal, Stop Tunneling
Yesterday, in Mayor Murray's first state of the city speech, he touts downtown's low single occupancy mode share (page 10) - fewer than half of...
Why Urbanism?
Sometimes, when having conversations with fellow environmentalists, I find a disconnect in our understanding of urbanization. In the past, cities were regarded as dirty,...
Notes From The January 14th Community Meeting
If you missed the community meeting at Lowell Elementary chances are you saw fewer angry people yelling at city administrators than me.
The meeting was...