Wimpy

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The incredible shrinking city!

Posted Mon, Apr 27, 9:22 a.m.

Correction: "Urban area." Regardless, their critieria for what constitutes a dense urban area seems a little broad. By this criteria once could observe a population decrease in a suburban/rural fringe area like Covington or Maple Valley and come to the conclusion that cities as a whole are shrinking or on ...

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The incredible shrinking city!

Posted Mon, Apr 27, 9:15 a.m.

"Karina Pallagst, program director at the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California Berkeley, defines a shrinking city as "a densely populated urban area with a minimum population of 10,000 residents" ...so according to this standard, a city such as Anacortes qualifies as a densely populated urban ...

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Mellow Seattle: maybe too mellow on crime?

Posted Wed, Apr 8, 5:54 p.m.

EJS - Your strategy for addressing crime is "friendliness?" Good lord...

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Genuflecting to the high rises

Posted Thu, Feb 14, 11:46 p.m.

RE: Stop the Madness: "Traveling snakeoil developers" So according to you, these developers are bad, A. Because they are not from Seattle B. Because they want to build buildings The developer of the 5th and Columbia Tower worked with the City and the church to save the historic sanctuary on ...

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