Monthly Archives: September 2025| www.theurbanist.org
Mayor Bruce Harrell has pledged to complete labor negotiations with the Seattle Police Officers Guild before the end of the year. But facing a tough reelection fight, he might not be around to sign the deal, which challenger Katie Wilson may want to renegotiate anyway. The post Harrell Pledges Police Contract by Year End – Adding Election Wrinkle first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
Nearly $200,000 in outside spending from a political action committee started by one Woodinville tech worker has upended local politics in the quiet suburb. The goal? Taking down a pro-growth council majority. The post Cash Wave Seeks to Tilt Woodinville Elections Against Housing Growth first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
While Tacoma saw a small uptick in housing starts in the first months of Home in Tacoma upzones, the City’s goal to add 59,000 homes by 2050 may take additional action by the City, given current trendlines. The post Home in Tacoma Rezones Generate Small Permit Bump in First Months first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
A 5-2 vote at the council puts a zoning rollback in Three Tree Point, Lake Burien, and Seahurst on the table for 2026, following months of advocacy by residents. This November's election will likely play a big role in the final policy outcome. The post Burien Eyes Rolling Back Zoning Changes in Response to Homeowner Pressure first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
CityNerd host Ray Delahanty recently visited Seattle and made a video with food blogger Kenji López-Alt while he was in town, focusing on what makes Pike Place Market great. Obviously, the pedestrianization of Pike Place came up, with the duo noting program has created more space for people walking and made it a more pleasant place to be for shoppers. The post Sunday Video: CityNerd and Kenji López-Alt Visit Pike Place Market first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
The sixth YIMBYtown conference, held earlier this month in Connecticut, represented a major change from its first iteration in 2016. The factors that have led to YIMBYtown going mainstream are leading to housing reforms across the country. The post YIMBYtown 2025 Puts National Momentum for More Housing on Full Display first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck's newly passed "Roots to Roofs" program is a 35-project pilot that lets nonprofit organizations and the Seattle Social Housing Developer tap into additional development capacity, particularly in areas with a history of past racial covenants. The post Seattle Council Approves Density Bonus, Targeting Areas of Past Housing Discrimination first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
The race for Seattle Mayor is heating up, with progressive challenger Katie Wilson securing new labor support and incumbent Bruce Harrell ramping up fundraising and attacks on his opponent. Harrell also called in an endorsement from a national Democratic Party leader via Pete Buttigieg. The post Katie Wilson Earns MLK Labor Endorsement, Harrell Touts Buttigieg Nod first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
Pivoting away from full-scale bus base retrofits that go all-in on battery electric buses means that Metro won't face a fiscal cliff until the early 2030s, according to budget writers. Metro's General Manager also framed the move as one that helps to preserve core bus services. The post King County Metro Delays Planned Electrification Work, Pushing Out Fiscal Cliff first appeared on The Urbanist.| The Urbanist
# In Mayor Bruce Harrell’s 2026 budget proposal unveiled Tuesday, the Seattle Police Department was the big winner, seeing a $34.5 million increase. The mayor would use a new 0.1% “public safety” sales tax increase and a business tax overhaul to close a $122 million deficit and fund new investments.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: February 2022| www.theurbanist.org
# The way cities conduct public outreach and local elections stacks the deck against homebuilding, tenants, and people of color, research shows. But it doesn’t have to be this way.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Washington State Legislature legalized “missing middle” housing across the state, allowing more homes on a lot in the form of rowhouses, duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes and sixplexes. Seattle will now need to legalize sixplex homes citywide in areas served with frequent transit and fourplexes elsewhere. This restores Seattle to a bygone era of density, affordability, and| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Washington State Department of Commerce has released draft guidance and model codes to implement the state's a new middle housing law. The new law will apply to most cities with a population of at least 25,000 residents (and some smaller cities), requiring them to broadly legalize middle housing throughout residential zones. Cities in King,| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Seattle City Council voted 8-0 Monday to pass accessory dwelling unit (ADU) reform, making it much easier to add a backyard cottage and/or an attached in-law apartment in a single family lot. The bill included a single family home size limit-- colloquially known as a McMansion ban--that will limit new construction to no more| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# New regulations to remove financial and regulatory barriers to backyard cottages and stem the tide of McMansions are moving forward in Seattle, possibly completing a five-year process that started in 2014. Last Wednesday, the Seattle City Council's Transportation and Sustainability Committee met to discuss the latest proposal to develop the sweeping housing regulations. Three weeks| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: July 2019| www.theurbanist.org
Kenmore Considers McMansion Tax in Zoning Overhaul| www.theurbanist.org
# On Monday, the City of Seattle is kicking off the public hearing process for the citywide Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) rezones at Eckstein Middle School in Wedgwood. The citywide rezones would apply to all urban villages and multifamily zoned land in Seattle, adding one or more stories of buildable height in exchange for affordability requirements| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# A coalition of 24 neighborhood groups announced an appeal of the City of Seattle's Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) rezone plan. The alliance calls itself the Seattle Coalition for Affordability, Livability, and Equity (SCALE) and threw a litany of complaints at the proposal, claiming the status quo would be better for affordability despite the evidence to| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development (OPCD) released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) document today. Mayor Tim Burgess officially released the FEIS at a noon event at Broadway Hill Park. The final urban village maps with explanations of the decisions are viewable starting around page 113 of this FEIS attachment. The MHA| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 in a three-part series on measuring the success of Seattle’s urban village strategy. For the the 22 independent indicators, see Part 2 and Part 3. In this article, Scott distills down some key background details from the report. Correction: The SSNAP report has been updated to correct statistics on where Seattle residents work. 38.2| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: June 2018| www.theurbanist.org
PSRC Report Connects Single Family Zoning and Highways with Structural Racism| The Urbanist
# In the past two decades, development in and around Northgate has, for the most part, been a bit sleepy. Every few years a new project would complete, but in 2019 three apartment buildings opened. With the Northgate light rail extension to begin service on October 2nd, several projects are currently underway, and many more are| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# With an overly limited urban village around its light rail station, Roosevelt could really use an expansion. I moved my family to the edge of Roosevelt in 2016, right on the boundary with Ravenna and a few steps away from the University District. We came for the gorgeous parks, great schools, budding amenities, and the| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Roosevelt neighborhood has the makings of a huge transit-oriented development success story. A building boom is underway, protected bike lanes have recently gone in, and the station site will be home to an affordable housing complex right around the time trains begin operating. Northgate Link, along with an underground station in Roosevelt, will open| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Green Lake and Roosevelt are at the heart of major new walking, biking, and transit infrastructure in North Seattle. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) recently rolled out improvements on NE 65th St and is poised add new improvements to NE 70th St in the coming months. NE 65th Street Improvements Responding to a "Fix| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
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Monthly Archives: September 2021| www.theurbanist.org
# Three years after the Seattle City Council tasked the department of construction with examining how to reform its cumbersome design review process, the agency released its report. The department still remains nearly a year away from making substantive changes to design review.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The agency is seeking feedback on its initial pedestrian, bike, bus, and transit-oriented development plans near its four planned West Seattle light rail stations. Sound Transit recently reached out to communities on the West Seattle Link Extension to gauge priorities around station area planning. The agency was specifically looking into support for particular station entrance| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: February 2025| www.theurbanist.org
# Early last week, crews with Seattle's Office of the Waterfront installed a very short stretch of two-way bike lane, at the foot of Yesler Way approaching Alaskan Way and Washington State Ferries Colman Dock. The new bike lane was timed to go in at the same time that new traffic patterns around the state ferry| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# 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| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Seattle is getting a Waterfront Park with an Overlook Walk connecting Pike Place Market to the Aquarium. This is made possible by the fact there won't be a gigantic highway viaduct between them. After the new $4 billion SR-99 tunnel opened, the Alaskan Way Viaduct came down in 2019. A new surface-level boulevard (with a| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: September 2023| www.theurbanist.org
# A paper trail from fall 2023 shows that Mayor Harrell's office overruled his planning department and cut transit corridor upzones and halved the number of proposed "neighborhood centers" before release of the growth strategy.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Kenmore City Councilmember David Baker offered a sharp criticism of the City of Seattle's slow and halting process to rezone the area around 130th Street Station during Thursday's Sound Transit System Expansion Committee meeting. Baker is one of 18 Sound Transit boardmembers who decide the fate of transit projects across the tri-county area. Transit advocates| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Members of the Sound Transit Board are expected to make a decision in April 2015 regarding light rail station locations on the Northgate-to-Lynnwood extension. One station being considered is a NE 130th Street Station on the east side of I-5 and NE 130th Street. The proposed 130th Street station would not have a parking structure and would| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: June 2024| www.theurbanist.org
# 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 Transportation for a suite of street improvements intended to improve safety, as part of the new Safe Streets for All grant program funded by the Infrastructure Investment and| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Washington Traffic Safety Commission held a difficult conversation last week around its longstanding goal of ending fatalities and serious injuries in traffic by the year 2030: whether that goal has now slipped out of reach. Washington's "Target Zero," established in 2000, with Washington one of the very first states to commit to ending traffic| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The gaps in Seattle's current complete streets legislation are becoming more apparent as the city moves ahead with a repaving project on one of the city's busiest and highest speed corridors, with minimal adjustments planned to slow traffic or make space for other modes of travel like walking or biking. The repaving project, which will| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is proposing changes to one of the most dangerous streets in the city, 4th Avenue S in SoDo, on a relatively ambitious timeline in the wake of several fatal crashes nearby just this year alone. The changes are relatively minor, quick-build type changes, but they do illustrate how SDOT| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has announced they are planning to convert one lane of northbound Rainier Avenue to a dedicated transit lane between Columbia City and Mount Baker later this year. A planned extension north through a heavily congested section near I-90 to reach to the soon-to-open Judkins Park Station in the median| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Within 18 months, the posted maximum speed limit on nearly every single arterial street in the city of Seattle will be 25 miles per hour. That was the boldest action on the list of safety improvements announced by Mayor Jenny Durkan yesterday, in response to a big uptick in traffic violence. More than two years| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# (Image: Seattle Fire Department)It’s been a bad year for Rainier Avenue South. There are the usually numerous car crashes, sure, but that’s normal. The same goes for the pedestrian collisions--regrettable, but normal. An unfortunate but inevitable side effect of the automobile, and are generally accepted with little comment. But in April, a car slammed into a| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: February 2023| www.theurbanist.org
# The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has announced plans to implement a new kind of pedestrian improvement that other cities have begun to add to crosswalks to reduce the frequency and severity of collisions between people walking and rolling and people turning left in vehicles. The improvement, which is referred to as a "hardened centerline"| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# On the backdrop of Lake City Way yesterday afternoon, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray met with dozens of supporters and advocates to unveil his citywide plan to eliminate all traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030. The Mayor was joined by Scott Kubly, Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation, and Kathleen O'Toole, Chief of Police| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: January 2022| www.theurbanist.org
# The idea of encouraging more residential development around Seattle's stadiums had been put on ice in 2023 with the adoption of a citywide maritime and industrial strategy. Nelson's bill reignites that debate just as the council starts to consider the Comprehensive Plan.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# District 2 Councilmember Tammy Morales announced Wednesday morning that she will resign in January, saying she has been undermined and frozen out of legislating by the more conservative-leaning Seattle City Council majority. The resignation sets up another council appointment and a special election next fall.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Battle lines are forming over the Occidental Avenue street vacation, which could (un)pave the way for Chris Hansen's basketball and soccer arena, ahead of a big vote expected at the May 2nd full council meeting. In the Sustainability and Transportation Committee, Sally Bagshaw was the only councilmember to vote against the petition asking for a| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: September 2024| www.theurbanist.org
# Cost estimates on the four-station West Seattle Link light rail project have jumped from $4 billion to upwards of $5.6 billion. It will fall on the Sound Transit board to find a way forward.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Momentum has been building around Reconnect South Park, a community-led effort to address how SR 99 slices through the neighborhood located near the Duwamish River in southwest Seattle, separating residents from their own community center, library, and elementary school. But one of Washington's highway megaprojects, SR 509 "completion" project, part of the $2.38 billion Puget| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Light rail tunnels to West Seattle Junction and Ballard took a step closer from dream to reality thanks to Sound Transit's latest analysis suggesting the cost for at least some of the tunnel options would be comparable to the elevated default option. The catch for Ballard Link is that the cheaper tunnel option still puts| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# A 25-year investment in high quality transit is a big commitment to make, but the Puget Sound Region just made it after last night's ballot drop showed Sound Transit 3 (ST3) with an insurmountable 55% to 45% lead. The Sound Transit taxing district has an estimated population of 2.8 million and covers most of the| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Sound Transit board showed it was taking delay costs seriously in rejecting late changes to the South Lake Union's Ballard Link stations. However, that principle could indicate a harder path to resurrect Chinatown's 4th Avenue station, based on how the board has designed the process.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Advocates worry Sound Transit is tilting the scales in favor of the board's preferred alternatives of skipping Chinatown and Midtown and shifting Denny Station north. In August, the Sound Transit Board approved a $122 million disbursement to its consultant HNTB for an environmental study and engineering work for Ballard Link light rail. Sound Transit portrayed| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: March 2024| www.theurbanist.org
# The 4th Avenue Shallow and Shallower and Midtown station options remain in contention, but with Mayor Harrell warning against "false hope." In a marathon five-hour meeting Thursday afternoon, the Sound Transit Board of Directors fundamentally altered plans for a new downtown light rail tunnel connecting Ballard Link to the rest of the system. Instead of| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# It ain't much, but that's all the Board's going on too. This week, the Sound Transit Board of Directors will be deciding on preferred Ballard Link alignments and station locations. Some are still up-in-air, with the most critical ones in the Midtown-to-I-90 segment. Impacts to the Chinatown International District (CID) have emerged as primary concerns.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Plans for South Downtown "FrankenHub" would be disastrous for generations of light rail riders As we enter the seventh year of Sound Transit 3 (ST3) expansion planning, Sound Transit is again at a crossroads and needs to finalize a plan for the Chinatown International District Station (CID). On the positive side, the agency recently presented an| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: August 2023| www.theurbanist.org
Monthly Archives: March 2023| www.theurbanist.org
# George Floyd's murder was the tip of the iceberg when it comes to police murders. Despite efforts by Mayor Jenny Durkan and the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to frame this as a Minneapolis problem, police violence is very much a local problem, too. Seattle police have killed 30 people since coming under federal consent decree| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Supporters, colleagues and elected officials gathered at Seattle's Westin Hotel for Futurewise's Spring Breakfast Livable Community Awards on March 2nd. The awards lifted up six groups that have excelled in community-building to advance equity and environmental causes. The winners were Kittitas County, the City of Bellevue, Beacon Food Forest, Roosevelt Neighborhood Association, King Conservation District, and Yesler Community Collaborative.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# In many cities the term NIMBY (not in my back yard) is often lobbed at those opposing changes in their neighborhood. The term is often perceived as an insult but this wasn’t always the case. People don’t want anything near them, especially if it might help someone else - George Carlin There is actually a| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: August 2017| www.theurbanist.org
# Despite the fact that LIHI's proposed affordable housing project has been advancing for nearly three years, public opposition has kicked up in recent weeks. The new campaign contends that such a prime Bainbridge Island site isn't appropriate for affordable housing.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Bainbridge Island and its picturesque downtown of Winslow is poised to see significant changes thanks to new state laws, as the Bainbridge council grapples with how to plan housing growth for the coming decades.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# All but one councilmember asked the Low Income Housing Institute to come back with a design that eliminates around a quarter of the planned affordable homes, after intense criticism of the height and parking ratio of a 92-unit proposal.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# While 2023 was dubbed the 'year of housing,' 2024 could be a second act, with unfinished business left to tackle. In 2023, the Washington State Legislature focused its attention on increasing the state's housing supply with a fervor not seen in decades. And that attention paid off. Laws were passed that will soon require cities| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Kenmore could be flushing $30 million in grants and the 100 affordable homes they were intended to fund. Following a marathon public hearing that ran until late Tuesday morning, the Kenmore City Council voted 6-1 this week to reject a development agreement that would allow Plymouth Housing to construct a facility that would create a| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# In this year’s legislative session, the Washington State Legislature passed extensive housing reform. House Bill 1110 compelled many cities in Washington to open up single-housing residential zones to long-banned duplexes, cottage courts, and small apartments. Such middle housing has been missing from the calculation for years, and it’s no wonder that housing has become unaffordable| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# WALeg Wednesday considers the housing package that passed, led by HB 1110. As the legislative calendar winds its way to adjourning sine die (until next year) on Saturday, it’s easy to focus on issues that were lost in the process or ideal bills that did not get out of the legislature. Rent stabilization failed in| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Sometimes there is a concept that pops up out of the blue that sounds like solution to so many problems. Among housing advocates in recent months, that idea has been the builder's remedy. The builder's remedy is a California law that allows developers to bypass local zoning when the jurisdiction is not compliant with state| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Note: This article was revised on 10/29/21 to reflect Futurewise's decision to rename the "vesting loophole" as the "illegal growth loophole" to more clearly convey to the public its negative consequences. This is the third installment of a three-part series that explains what the Growth Management Act Illegal Growth Loophole is, what it looks like| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Futurewise 2021 Legislative Wrap-Up: Our efforts to address climate change, housing affordability, and environmental justice through comprehensive planning. At Futurewise, we believe that everyone deserves to live in dignified, safe, and affordable housing, that we must do everything we can to protect our communities and environment from the worst impacts of climate change, and that in doing| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Comprehensive updates pushing the 30-year-old Growth Management Act to be adaptive, inclusive, equitable, and actionable. When the Washington legislative session begins in less than a month, the budget and the response to Covid will be at the top of the agenda. It is a tall order to break through these dual massive issues, but at the| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: January 2025| www.theurbanist.org
# Phase two of the One Seattle Plan had included additional housing density around 30 existing commercial centers like Tangletown and Madrona, but now those changes won't be discussed until after this fall's elections, pushing key housing actions into 2026.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# In House Bill 1110, the Washington State Legislature read the will of the people and demanded that we tackle the housing crisis more proactively by allowing middle housing in most cities and towns. The Washington State Department of Commerce has created a basic zoning template that supersedes local code if town planners balk at updating| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Washington State Legislature approved a 7% to 10% cap on rent hikes Sunday, after the proposal faced a rollercoaster of obstacles over the course of the 105-day session.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Three years in the making, HB 1491 would require Washington cities to zone for apartment buildings near rail stations and rapid bus stops. A compromise around housing affordability mandates finally paved the way for the bill's passage in both chambers.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The state's 60-day legislative session wrapped on March 7 with only a few housing bills headed to Governor Inslee's desk. Rent stabilization, transit-oriented development, lot-splitting, and a builder's remedy all failed to pass.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
Monthly Archives: May 2025| www.theurbanist.org
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# Shoreline becomes the largest city in King County to let builders decide how much parking makes sense within the specifics of a site, rather than requiring an arbitrary number. The 6-0 city council vote follows a watershed state bill tackling parking earlier this year.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Friday's ballot count was very friendly to Seattle progressives, with mayoral challenger Katie Wilson exceeding the 50% mark with the boost. The election dynamics favor a progressive wave. Here's why.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# The Urbanist is hosting its Endorsed Candidate Party this Sunday, August 17. Join us for an afternoon of food, drink, good company, and toasting to local urbanist wins. Get your ticket today!| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Five major bike safety projects are all opening within a few months of each other, filling in critical gaps in Seattle's network. But most of the credit for ensuring that Hot Bike Summer happened in the first place goes to previous city leaders.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Seattle is a “you are on your own” city rather than one cares for vulnerable residents, especially our youngest kids. John Burbank lays out how to change that with investments in infant and child care.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
# Take the ninth installment of The Urbanist's crossword series, which runs every two weeks. If you love to take a contemplative moment with a brain-teasing puzzle, but you’re tired of nationally syndicated crosswords with no local flair or stance on high-capacity transit, you’re right where you need to be.| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.