Weekly Digest
The following are the latest 10 articles from The Urbanist articles for the week of 01/30/23. You can catch up on other recent articles directly on our online magazine or never miss a story by adding us to your RSS feeds.
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Author: Ryan Packer
Snippet: 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 instead boarded from a brand new 20,000 square foot terminal, an effort years in the making. The new building, which includes seating for 362 people, dramatically […]
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Author: Ray Dubicki and Ryan Packer
Snippet: “Summit of Our Noble Efforts” – Jay Inslee The Washington State Convention Center’s new Summit Building opened to the public on Friday, January 27. As part of a ribbon cutting ceremony, the fools let The Urbanist’s Ryan Packer and Ray Dubicki in for speechification and press tours. We took advantage and spent two hours roaming […]
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Author: Ray Dubicki
Snippet: Though it has miles of roads, thousands of homes, an airport, and plenty of shopping, the City of Greenfield does not actually exist. It has been constructed in the computer game Minecraft by hundreds of people who have painstakingly laid millions of individual cubes to construct each of thousands of buildings and all the infrastructure. […]
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Author: Natalie Bicknell Argerious
Snippet: Despite negative pandemic rhetoric, demand for walkable urbanism remains high, creating a source of untapped potential growth in cities across the country. Take a moment to visualize a walkable neighborhood you are familiar with. It could be a dense downtown or a smaller scale neighborhood hub of homes and small businesses, either one works for […]
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Author: Sam Levitt
Snippet: The French Alpine town was offered a quirky alternative and turned it down. Even in the United States, there was a point in the early 20th Century where most American cities and small towns had trains, trolleys, and interurban rail, often better than what is available today. It is a story that most people in North […]
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Author: Ryan DiRaimo
Snippet: An accidental game of musical chairs at a packed community meeting on the Comprehensive Plan provided a microcosm for Seattle’s housing crisis. When you come to a two-hour community event, you expect to have a seat. And when you move to a place like Seattle, you expect there’s a home for everyone. Earlier this month, […]
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Author: Patrick Carnahan (Guest Contributor)
Snippet: Tacoma has a major extension of Sound Transit’s T Line streetcar to look forward to over the coming year: the Hilltop Tacoma Link Extension (HTLE). But this past year saw the loss of a small yet memorable element of the line’s history. Monday, August 1st, 2022 marked the start of the T Line’s extended shutdown […]
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Author: Ray Dubicki
Snippet: With a new year comes expectations. Whether it’s something shiny and unique or a continuation of the stuff that came before, those expectations really shape our anticipation (or antipathy) for the coming orbit around the sun. In this episode, hosts Natalie Argerious and Ray Dubicki talk about the which trends will probably continue and where […]
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Author: Doug Trumm
Snippet: Earlier this week I sat down with Alex Hudson to chat about her run for Seattle City Council in District 3, which she officially announced this morning. Hudson has been executive director of Transportation Choices Coalition since 2018 and is no stranger to policy debates that have raged in City Hall recently. Before joining TCC, […]
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Author: Ray Dubicki
Snippet: The bills we have been tracking from previous weeks did not see a lot of movement. Design review reform made it out of its first committee and the Evergreen Basic Income Pilot survived a flurry of amendments. But really, the big news this week is a few big new bills that dropped, including one aimed […]
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