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 Tue, Jan 24, 2 a.m.
Updated: The 'Tateuchi Truce' over the Sound Transit wars on the Eastside made clear what a catalyst for an urbanized Eastside this long-aborning cultural center has become.
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Posted Tue, Dec 27, 2 a.m.
Regions such as Snohomish County that fell hard for developers' dreams of remote housing projects are paying a severe price in foreclosures and short sales. The cruel market correction confirms the economic value of denser, closer-in residential patterns.
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Posted Tue, Dec 27, 2 a.m.
Welcome to Kent, frontline for the forces transforming America's suburbs: poverty and hardship, global diversity, and exciting new energy and innovation.
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Posted Thu, Dec 8, 2 a.m.
Welcome to Kent, frontline for the forces transforming America's suburbs: poverty and hardship, global diversity, and exciting new energy and innovation.
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Posted Sun, Nov 27, noon
Across the country, cities and their neighboring suburbs face challenges fueling their prosperity under a system in which they are creatures of their states.
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Posted Mon, Oct 17, 2 a.m.
The secret to urban success, says Ron Sims, is regional coherence. How do you achieve that? Leadership. But where does that come from, and how does it work? History offers some examples.
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Posted Tue, Oct 4, 2 a.m.
Puget Sound is a poster child for the problems of regional transportation planning. One big roadblock: long-standing distrust of Seattle.
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Posted Mon, Sep 12, 2 a.m.
...but the answers show how essential concentrated urban development is to our health, wealth, and survival as a society. Seattle ought to be leading the way.
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Posted Wed, Aug 31, 2 a.m.
Regions such as Snohomish County that fell hard for developers' dreams of remote housing projects are paying a severe price in foreclosures and short sales. The cruel market correction confirms the economic value of denser, closer-in residential patterns.
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Posted Mon, Aug 29, 2 a.m.
New data about our region show where the families and singles are concentrating, how gentrification is affecting Seattle, and what kind of households are in dense, job-rich areas.
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Posted Wed, Jun 15, 2 a.m.
Ten reasons Seattle's urban advocates should look at Century 21 as a role model, not a relic.
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Posted Mon, Jun 13, 1:34 p.m.
Updated with additional maps. New data show how Seattle is changing in fundamental ways. It has become a haven for singles, for young people (but not children), and for renters. Married couples with children, the historic norm, now make up only 13% of Seattle households.
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Posted Fri, Apr 22, midnight
In Ballard, a project that was supposed to be a model for dealing with stormwater turned into a fiasco. City officials rushed the project as "shovel ready" and eligible for federal stimulus money.
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Posted Thu, Apr 21, 2 a.m.
Approximately 40 percent of the city is now minority, and Bellevue has the highest percentage of Asian residents of any city in Washington state.
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Posted Mon, Mar 28, 2 a.m.
There are challenges to creating the 'next' Silicon Valley, but also to keeping the current one vital. In the Bay Area, one ray of hope is offered by a former Naval Air Station (think Magnuson Park on steroids), and a proposed Expo could bring all the pieces together.
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Posted Tue, Feb 22, 2 a.m.
Washington's politicians in both parties seem to think that any debt is good debt if it builds highways. They ought to be thinking about using state resources to create economically and environmentally sustainable communities.
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Posted Sun, Feb 20, 5 a.m.
To make suburbs fit into modern realities, we will have to re-imagine and re-engineer them.
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Posted Sun, Feb 13, 2 a.m.
Suburban strips with huge parking lots are losing favor, thanks to economic shifts, rising gas prices, and more appealing pedestrian-friendly town centers.
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Posted Fri, Feb 11, 2 a.m.
Eating on the Edge: In downtown Bellevue, a Taiwanese immigrant is serving high-quality food in an upscale setting, following a surge of young, upwardly mobile Asian immigrants who are heading to the suburbs.
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Posted Sun, Jan 30, 2 a.m.
One study by an Oregon-based consultant challenges the assumption that fast-growing cities attract more jobs and greater wealth.
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It makes sense. What better place for privacy?
MOREPosted Thu, Feb 25, 5 a.m. 2010
Crosscut writer and land-use attorney Chuck Wolfe captures the contrast through his camera lens.
MOREPosted Mon, Jan 18, 1:38 p.m. 2010
Robert Fishman, an expert on cities and suburbia, will lecture at U.W. on how two seemingly unqualified authors transformed our ideas about cities and protecting nature with seminal books in the 1960s.
MOREPosted Sat, Aug 22, 11:06 a.m. 2009
An economist is skeptical about the goals and benefits of Obama's rail vision.
MOREPosted Wed, Jan 14, 1:07 p.m. 2009
New thinking about what to do with old sprawl in the 21st century.
MOREPosted Sat, Dec 20, 11 a.m. 2008
From Republicans to The Stranger, everyone wants to grab a piece of crab grass.
MOREPosted Wed, Nov 26, 9:39 p.m. 2008
Two cases link the suburban city with Hitler and the holocaust.
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 4, 11:40 a.m. 2008
Change taking place in one Seattle neighborhood, as seen on election day.
MOREPosted Mon, Aug 25, 2:46 p.m. 2008
An interesting follow-up to my story last week on the future of suburbia is a profile of Merced, Calif., in the Aug. 24 issue of The New York Times. Skeptical that some burbs might become the new ghost towns? Check out the picture of the Riverstone housing development that accompanies this story, of an unfinished project baking in the sun and dirty air of a boomtown gone bust.
MOREPosted Tue, Jul 29, 5:31 p.m. 2008
Median condominium prices in Chicago, notes Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, are $232,000. That's very low, even a shade under those in Trenton, N.J. (The King County median price for condos is $285,000.) What do those smart urbanists in Chicago know about affordability?
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