Sightline has a post up on land use patterns and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that makes my day cause it saves me the trouble of writing the same piece. Â Some argue that restructuring our built environment to be more compact and location efficient is not a practical strategy for cutting GHGs because it is […]
[ The horrors of Snowpocalypse 2008 ] One of the smartest decisions the next mayor of Seattle could make would be to retain Grace Crunican as the director of the Seattle Department of Transportation. But sadly no, both Mallahan and McGinn have said said they would not. Given Crunican’s record, it’s hard not to interpret […]
Most Seattle sidewalks are not photogenic. But to some of us, they are exciting nonetheless. The sidewalk in the photo above didn’t exist a few months ago. Back then, if you wanted to walk on Pine Street between one of the city’s most densely populated neighborhoods and downtown, you could only cross I-5 on the […]
[ Park(ing) Day on 1st Ave between University and Seneca ] Yes, Park(ing) Day is the purest of wholesome urban goodness.  Last Friday in Seattle and cities all over the country, people took over street parking spaces, filled them with stuff, and hung out in publicly owned space that is normally and unquestionably surrendered for […]
Author Paul Hawken has a word for people who can’t shut up about how the whole world is going to hell: doomers. But during his keynote address to the Sustainable Industries Economic Forum in downtown Seattle on Thursday, he spoke in defense of them. Because doomers play a key role: they make designers do a […]
(Editor’s note: The following is a letter from Cary Moon to friends and supporters of PWC, reproduced here with permission.) >>> Dear friends, It’s been a while since I wrote to share news with PWC friends and supporters. The politics around this viaduct decision were already tricky, and continue to get weirder. Here’s a recap […]
A good overview of transit-oriented development in the Seattle metro region by Clair Enlow.  Though in my humble opinion the subtitle “TOD finally catches on” is a tad sanguine.
(aside from a reprimand from dan bertolet, this is the other notice I received yesterday) Â
