Sunday Video: Narrowing Streets in North America
North American cities are known for their wide, gridded streets which stand in stark contrast to European city streets that tend to be narrower...
Sunday Video: Bad Takes to Justify Bad Cities
There's a segment of Americans and Canadians that like to say that good urbanism can't be replicated in North American cities because their countries...
Sunday Video: Let Joni’s Light Shine
Joni Mitchell is an urbanist. Who else could write a line like: "Shine on worldwide traffic jams, honking day and night. Shine on another...
Video: Seattle City Council District 1 Mobility Forum
On Wednesday June 14, candidates for the District 1 Seattle City Council seat faced off in a mobility-focused forum co-hosted by The Urbanist. Phil...
Sunday Video: What Is Vision Zero?
The term “Vision Zero” gets bandied about a lot in transportation and urbanist circles, but to the unitiated the concept isn’t necessarily obvious or...
Sunday Video: The Inventor’s Dream House
It's always interesting when one of the architecture channels has an opening drone shot that makes you go, "Wait, I know that leafy hill...
Sunday Video: Rethinking How To Measure Cities
The Urbanist does a lot of work with the data of cities. From tunnel budgets to climate impacts to new developments, there's numbers all...
Sunday Video: Renovating an Abandoned High School into Apartments
Purchasing an abandoned high school for $100,000, three developers carved out a lovely 31 unit apartment building in the Pittsburgh suburb of Homestead, Pennsylvania....