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Don’t forget to come hang out on Saturday evening w @theurbanist.org and a bunch of awesome folks who are making our north sound communities more liveable! Coolest thing to ever happen in Mountlake Terrace? Possibly! www.eventbrite.com/e/north-soun...

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

We’ve got some good momentum and energy going up here, come hang w us and @theurbanist.org.web.brid.gy on March 15 and let’s see what we can build together! www.eventbrite.com/e/north-soun...

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

I just got this email from our statewide city association about @jessdbateman.bsky.social's parking bill, and boy it’s frustrating to see the org we pay dues to sending emails like this out. So frustrating that I will address their local control talking points in a thread.

submitted 130 days ago • 14 comments

New @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social: For disability rights advocates, Seattle's comp plan is seen as a chance to improve accessibility in the city because it will allow more apartments in more neighborhoods. www.cascadepbs.org/politics/202...

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

Today in @worksinprogress.bsky.social, I reflect on Donald Shoup's legacy. Perhaps the most interesting question: how did the most unlikely professor kick off an international parking reform movement? substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 136 days ago • 2 comments

Whoever headed up the redesign of the Washington legislature's website should get a statue on the capitol grounds

submitted 167 days ago • 4 comments

Imagine using the word "hyperdensification" and what you're talking about is LYNNWOOD WASHINGTON.

submitted 166 days ago • 6 comments

A new bill just dropped in #waleg to require the state building code council to allow smaller, internationally best-in-class elevators to be built in small apartment buildings. Read #SB5156 here: app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

NEW STORY // Riders Plan Vigil for Metro Bus Driver Shawn Yim Following Stabbing www.theurbanist.org/2024/12/21/r...

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

Killzone

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

fascinating pattern here: the IRS sprinkles in photos of missing children to fill blank pages in documents

submitted 191 days ago • 0 comments

Name the Puget Sound municipality that has this in their 2024 Comprehensive Plan. “Shared lanes have become the nationally accepted method to improve bicycle mobility through urbanized areas.”

submitted 194 days ago • 2 comments

spending friday night downloading video of every single Edmonds City Council meeting since 2015 🤠 only 500gb to go!

submitted 197 days ago • 1 comment

this is what legislative deliberation rooms should feel like

submitted 205 days ago • 1 comment

What a beautiful summary of what polis can be, from a team working in Greece. Here's to seeing beyond the math to the political

submitted 208 days ago • 1 comment

i've heard a lot about the centrality of "alignment problem" in A(G)I development seems like coordination/alignment within & between states (groups of people & their institutions) is a very tangible alignment problem, and apt problem space for AI tooling can we learn about alignment by *doing* it?

submitted 208 days ago • 2 comments

Vashon is such a fun place for an overnighter

submitted 221 days ago • 1 comment

instead of a world's fair - which is a temporary show - what if instead we copied the german IBA - the international bauausstellung (international building exhibition). the IBA is a architecture and planning expo that builds durable, innovative, and experimental communities.

submitted 233 days ago • 5 comments

This is why I left. It wasn’t ideological – it’s just that I joined Twitter to share and find information, and the X algorithm now punishes that by punishing people for posting links. So what is left is not information, but disinformation.

submitted 229 days ago • 4 comments

Light rail is thriving in Seattle

submitted 231 days ago • 0 comments

Rad. Never in a million years thought I'd be holding a book I wrote. Thanks to Island Press and my editor Heather Boyer. Thanks to Alex Steffen, Dave Roberts, and Carlos Moreno for the incredibly kind words. Let's get to work building better, more affordable, and climate adaptive cities!

submitted 255 days ago • 29 comments

The economics of upzoning are solid, but I’d love deeper construction reforms so that this can be nine apartments with one elevator, one stair, usable living rooms, 21 bedrooms, and 15 bathrooms rather than nine inaccessible townhouses with nine stairs, 18 bedrooms, 18 bathrooms, and nine half-baths

submitted 269 days ago • 8 comments