Cities & Planning

Seattle voters will have the opportunity to vote on building housing on publicly owned land on February 14. This housing would go to renters earning up to 120% of the local median income. Seattle h…

Most frequently used by high school sports participants, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation employees, and Seattle Opera goers, the northeast corner of Seattle Center is probably the quietest area o…

Scientists are racing to study Arctic ecosystems before they are lost forever.

“Am I concerned? Hell yes, I’m concerned.”

David Cottrell of North Cove has thrown hay bales, stumps and $400 of rocks at the rising coastline. His experiment caught the eye of global experts.

Critics say the tract of detached houses would increase sprawl, harm critical wildlife habitat. This Saturday, February 11th, Save Coal Creek and the Issaquah Alps Trails Club are calling people to…

Two decades ago Vancouver experimented with a new public space, a sustainable country lane. Why it is time to revisit this innovation for sustainability and for community public health.

Located in downtown, the new Seattle Convention Center breaks the mold of sprawling, horizontal convention centers.

Some experts believe the concept may be the best and cheapest way for cities to adapt to climate change. Numerous cities are dealing with two seemingly unrelated challenges: flooding and drought. T…

Savings could elevate light rail in Rainier Valley, speeding up service, improving safety, and fully automate the system. Sound Transit is currently planning the West Seattle and Ballard Link Exten…

A bill allowing single-stairway “point access block” buildings would enhance housing and neighborhoods. On February 2nd the Washington State Senate held its first hearing on SB 5491, a …

One parking stall per 1,000 square feet of racquetball facility. One stall for every five seats in a theater. One stall for every 300 feet of a veterinary clinic. One stall for every 400 square fee…

A survey on possible Bell Street changes is open for public comment through February 12th. As work continues at a feverish pace to complete some of the most long-awaited elements of Seattle’s…

City planners are rethinking the role parking garages play in the urban landscape with new regulations and designs that repurpose old parking infrastructure.

Will the station be shallow, deep, or somewhere between? On Fourth or Fifth Avenue? Or skip Chinatown and Midtown altogether for a Pioneer Square junction? Many ideas and questions are still swirli…

On February 4th, the Tacoma Tree Foundation (TTF) will host a planting event at Madison Elementary school. The school is one of the only publicly accessible green spaces across the entire Tacoma Ma…

Part of a series of responses while taking a course by the Institute for Social Ecology: "Solarpunk, Art, and Social Ecological Aesthetics".

Turning your perfectly unnatural (yet impressively green) lawn into an imperfectly wild(ish) piece of land requires a little time and energy at first. And then...a lot less mowing.

What would happen if public transportation were free? What if it were paid for by congestion pricing, digitally implemented? What if public toilets were safe, beautiful, well-appointed and consiste…

King County Metro is back with its next phase of the Lynnwood Link bus restructure process. The proposal focuses on feeding riders to new stations opening as part of the light rail extension and co…

On Monday, Senator Maria Cantwell’s office announced that the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has been selected to receive over $25 million from the U.S. Department of Transportat…

By Eriko Shrestha and Tianyi Sun   There is extraordinary excitement today over “green” hydrogen produced by using renewable electricity to split the hydrogen atoms from water molecules (remember, the H in H2O is hydrogen). But can it live up to the silver-bullet hype?  Evidence indicates that

On a quiet weekday in November, daily passengers at the Washington State Ferries’ Colman Dock stopped using a makeshift terminal to board ferries to Bremerton and Bainbridge Island and instea…

Eagles! Cormorants! Fish! And New Parks!

Thanks in large part to the Inflation Reduction Act, the dirty fuel has even fewer things going for it now

Apocalypse investors are pushing fake climate solutions on us that are making climate change worse.

One of the less sustainable aspects of transitioning to EVs is that building them requires the mining of metals and minerals such as lithium.

They’re smart, high tech—and possibly determining the future of diplomacy.