Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.
Crosscut blog posts of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Posted Thu, Nov 12, 6 a.m.
Troubled Horizon Bank, at the center of a massive hilltop housing plan, now says it may not survive long enough to build the project. Even so, the bank is pursuing permits and conservationists aren't sure what will happen next.
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Posted Mon, Oct 26, 6 a.m.
Preservationists worry that the character of Bellingham's historic neighborhood rides on the FDIC's willingness to enforce its own order restricting a controversial development.
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Posted Thu, Oct 15, 6 a.m.
Using a state pilot project, the Cascade Land Conservancy has made it possible to preserve historic Hidden Valley Camp for future generations. It's more than a win for holding back sprawl, it also saves an incubator of the Northwest's conservation ethic.
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Posted Tue, Oct 13, 6 a.m.
Volunteers, artists, and an absentee landowner are together creating a P-Patch honoring the father of the University District Street Fair.
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Posted Mon, Oct 12, 6 a.m.
September's demolition of state landmarks leaves Washington preservationists reeling.
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Posted Wed, Oct 7, 6 a.m.
The elaborately designed new Bravern complex is a pastiche of ideas drawn from European public spaces. As architecture, it's all very tasteful, but it lacks whimsy, unpredictability, and Northwest context.
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Posted Fri, Oct 2, 6 a.m.
The patron saint of livable, walkable cities is being invoked on both sides of the debate over Seattle's Viaduct solution. Would Jacobs be a tunnel supporter, or a surface option fan?
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Posted Wed, Sep 30, 6 a.m.
'Flood control is an oxymoron,' one expert says. Maybe, instead of spending so much money trying to control our rivers, we should buy out property owners and let the water run free.
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Posted Tue, Sep 22, 6 a.m.
Just putting tolls on the Evergreen Point Bridge is not going to cut it. Instead, the region needs to apply tolls all along the 520 corridor and broadly across our highway system. Here's an encouraging progress report.
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Posted Tue, Sep 22, 6 a.m.
A Vulcan spokesperson pleads: no more ill-informed pieces on South Lake Union by John Fox.
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Posted Mon, Sep 21, 6 a.m.
Backyard cottage housing is a benefit, not a threat, to single family neighborhoods, and in keeping with the values that shaped Seattle. Let's have more.
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Posted Sun, Sep 20, 5:36 p.m.
An expert on cities distills the Portland DNA. Most of all, it's a city that is comfortable with being an urban place.
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Posted Fri, Sep 18, 6 a.m.
Seattle has a great international brand, but locally, the Emerald City image is tarnished. New leadership could give us a fresh start.
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Posted Thu, Sep 17, 6 a.m.
The City during the Nickels years has put a lot of money into building up the sector, but job growth for biotech has fallen far short of the promises.
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Posted Wed, Sep 16, 6 a.m.
Many homeless people don't want to be in shelters or the housing officials think they ought to have. So here's an idea: provide campgrounds and revive trailer parks.
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Posted Wed, Sep 16, 6 a.m.
Mayor Nickels forged a grand political alliance, now headless. Will it persist, will the city go back to its familiar feuding ways, or will we move on?
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Posted Tue, Sep 15, 6 a.m.
The Future Shack awards suggest some design principles that could help us shape the city and region for the better.
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Posted Thu, Sep 10, 10:03 p.m.
The first face-off of Seattle's mayoral candidates offered contrasts, but no aha! moments.
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Posted Thu, Sep 10, 6 a.m.
For the first time, cost estimates for the western part, phase II, have surfaced. Adding $100 million to a project that is already short of funding is starting to look like a kind of farewell fling from Mayor Nickels. A critic traces all the funding maneuvers.
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Posted Wed, Sep 9, 9:24 p.m.
An art exhibit in Port Angeles displays creative responses to the Cascadia dream.
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The nearly 100-year-old "city beautiful" plan for the city, never adopted, still holds a worthy reminder.
MOREPosted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.
With a new fundraising campaign kicking off tonight, the history museum hopes to be in its new Lake Union digs in 2012.
MOREPosted Mon, Oct 12, 6 a.m.
Despite recession, layoffs and white powder, Seattle publisher Frank Blethen is upbeat about his paper and its prospects.
MOREPosted Tue, Aug 4, 5:26 p.m.
Cooler weather and voluntary conservation saved the day, but the underlying problems with Lake Whatcom remain
MOREPosted Thu, Jul 30, 6:25 p.m.
Problems in Lake Whatcom come back to haunt the city, as algae blooms created by shoreline development have clogged the water filtration system. No landscape watering until further notice, the city decrees.
MOREPosted Thu, Jul 16, 1:09 p.m.
Turns out there's no parking near the light rail stations, save one in Tukwila. Welcome to the reality of trade-offs.
MOREPosted Tue, Jun 30, 6 a.m.
More thoughts from the Seattle and Vancouver urban debaters on what makes their cities livable, or not.
MOREPosted Tue, Jun 23, 8:57 a.m.
And what it tells us about local design problems
MOREPosted Wed, Jun 3, 9:40 p.m.
The bidding war over Frank Russell Investments is a classic illustration of greed overcoming regional planning.
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