What We’re Reading: Hello New Streetcar!
Choo choo!: The First Hill Streetcar will get up and running today around noon.
New refuge: The Seattle City Council approves a third homeless encampment and...
What We’re Reading: Better Worker Rights
Workers' rights: A new initiative could bring new statewide minimum wage and sick leave benefits to all workers.
Going to be unreal: Tom over at Seattle...
What We’re Reading: 102 Stories (Not) Coming To Downtown Seattle
United metropole: Paris has finally unified dozens of suburbs and the city into one unitary body called “Métropole du Grand Paris”; the new body...
What We’re Reading: Tall Timber Towers
Tall timber tower: Lever Architecture has proposed a 130-foot timber-framed tower in Portland's Pearl District. It would be one of tallest wood towers in...
The Urbanist’s Year End Wrap Up: 2015
2015 was a big year for The Urbanist. We passed our 1,000 post mark, incorporated federally as a nonprofit organization, and jumped into the...
What We’re Reading: In Case You Missed It
Banning auto-oriented businesses to spur walkability: Columbia Heights, Minnesota is trying it.
Frequency Stacks Up: Comparing Houston's new transit network to other cities.
Swept Away: The city...
What We’re Reading: Galactic Urbanism
Holiday service: The holidays are right around that corner and that means service reductions on transit.
Galactic urbanism: Five amazing cities from the Star Wars universe.
Moving on over:...
What We’re Reading: Saving the World
Saving the world: An international climate change agreement has been struck in Paris to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees celsius by 2100.
Change the...