In order to cultivate a successful evening ecosystem, the city can't just focus on arts and entertainment. It needs to prioritize making resources like transit and everyday services more accessible at night.
Futon re-Framing the Issue on the #48
DIY Metro Planning
Underlining Like Mad #184: Opposite Hex
There is a much-loved photograph of Jane Jacobs sitting in jail, awaiting booking. She is side by side with the writer Susan Sontag, who looks characteristically defiant. Jacobs appears calmer...
Fight Exclusive Zoning with Exclusive Zoning
We should find a way to tax Seattle's cavalier land use...
Welcoming Yard Signs, Unwelcoming Land Use Code
It's hard for liberal Seattle to grok that our friendly single-family neighborhoods, even with all those progressive "This house believes..." signs, are actually part of the problem.
Citywide Sit-In
Chill Ave. ...
The Canopy Metric
Groovy...
Dumb Growth
From Sightline: "Research links high-quality early education with lifelong benefits: higher adult salary and education level, greater likelihood of owning a home, having a 401(k) and saving for retirement, as well as lower likelihood of teenage pregnancy, incarceration, tobacco use, and depression. Unfortunately in Seattle, the benefits of a top-notch elementary education are disproportionately available to children from white, English-speaking families with high incomes. ... More flexible zoning code could be one important tool in reversing segregation among Seattle’s public schools."
Underlining Like Mad #175: Why Raising Development Fees in Vulnerable Communities Might Hurt Vulnerable Communities.
The Planning Commission is concerned that increasing [payment] requirements in areas with a high risk of displacement may have negative consequences on Seattle’s historically marginalized communities by stagnating growth, exacerbating housing shortages, and further limiting access to jobs, [and] housing,
Clean Electrons
The War on Fossil Fuels...
The Pedestrian Chronicles 