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Peter Steinbrueck

A regular contributor to Crosscut.
Active since: April 2007
Bio: Peter Steinbrueck is former chair of the Seattle City Council's Urban Development and Planning Committee and principal of Steinbrueck Urban Strategies, LLC.

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Creating 'people places'

Posted Thu, Sep 11, 3 a.m. 2008

An architect and former City Council member argues for compact urban design, but not at the expense of livability. Density doesn't have to be a dirty word.

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Little boxes, crammed together

Posted Fri, Jul 11, 5 a.m. 2008

Like the skinny houses of two decades ago, dense townhouse projects seem to be everywhere, and they look terrible. An architect and former Seattle City Council member says Seattle can do better.

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An unjustified delay in restoring the King County Courthouse

Posted Fri, Jan 25, 5 a.m. 2008

For 40 years, the exterior of the 1916 building has been blighted by 1960s-era aluminum panels. There had been $109,000 in the $4.9 billion King County budget to study restoration of the exterior, but it was vetoed by Executive Ron Sims. In his debut as a Crosscut writer, architect and former Seattle City Council member Peter Steinbrueck says the County Council should override that veto.

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Blog posts by this author

Downtown condo developers, beware of too many towers too close

Posted Wed, Jan 30, 8:32 a.m. 2008

Seattle Post-Intelligencer architecture critic Lawrence Cheek makes some excellent observations about the new urban renaissance of residential high-rises in downtown Seattle, praising design qualities of the recently completed 5th and Madison Tower, one the first residential high-rises to be completed after the new downtown code was adopted by the city in 2006. "5th and Madison confirms that we're back in a healthy and agreeable phase of high-rise fashion," Cheek writes. But he also raises some very legitimate issues about tower spacing and separation:

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