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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...