What is a 15 minute city and how might Seattle be able to get closer to achieving it? Other cities around the world offer a model.

All urban design and architecture is implemented with a particular goal in mind — often to shape people’s behavior in a particular direction. Hostile...

We get a lot of news-ish emails about ranking cities in lists. Whether it's the best cities for strange hats or the metros that...

WALeg Wednesday on a Thursday follows the bills that got to swap chambers as the music goes on for some and others fail for...

An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) sounds like a highly technical and complex mechanism of governance. They take years, spiral into hundreds of pages with...

Seattle and Washington State want to maintain housing affordability and the other Washington (D.C.) laid the groundwork to do it via legislation providing tenants...

What is the International Special Review District (ISRD)?  The International Special Review District (ISRD) is where the future of the "look" of the Chinatown-International District...

 (....and why do all these urbanists talk in this funny shorthand that makes me feel stupid...) The abundance of acronyms in land use discussions frequently...