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Why Seattle needs a new urban environmentalism

Fri, May 11, midnight

By Don Fels and Patricia Tusa Fels

Sure, Seattleites score high when it comes to environmental awareness, but it's about time we took a good look at how we treat our city.

Bauhaus solutions: Preservation isn't free

Tue, May 8, midnight

By Roger Valdez

People are legitimately concerned when a developer changes a key part of their neighborhood's commercial district. But the Green Bay Packers model might help communities control their own destiny while respecting ownership rights.

America's foolish detour into shopping malls

Mon, Apr 9, 2 a.m.

By Mark Hinshaw

These land-devouring, car-dependent malls were invented 60 years ago, with Seattle among the pioneers. Now they are in terminal decline. There was a better idea in Kansas City, but unfortunately it was eclipsed by our mania for malls.

Time to stop snubbing the suburbs?

Tue, Feb 28, 2 a.m.

By Mark Hinshaw

The notion of a "suburb" is history. Diversity, greater density, more shopping and transportation choices are all part of the new identities of the communities around Seattle.

Inside Politics, 2012: Can Republicans control Legislature? Races look tight

Tue, Feb 14, 2 a.m.

By Chris Vance

Even coming up short in November, the GOP could well control the agenda in Olympia next year.

Bellevue's rendezvous with an urban destiny

Tue, Jan 24, 2 a.m.

By David Brewster

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.

Best of 2011: A new world in South King County

Tue, Dec 27, 2 a.m.

By Eric Scigliano

Welcome to Kent, frontline for the forces transforming America's suburbs: poverty and hardship, global diversity, and exciting new energy and innovation.

Best of 2011: Sick suburbs, expiring exurbs

Tue, Dec 27, 2 a.m.

By Mark Hinshaw

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.

A new world in South King County

Thu, Dec 8, 2 a.m.

By Eric Scigliano

Welcome to Kent, frontline for the forces transforming America's suburbs: poverty and hardship, global diversity, and exciting new energy and innovation.

Will states let the metropolitan regions thrive?

Sun, Nov 27, noon

By Mary Newsom

Across the country, cities and their neighboring suburbs face challenges fueling their prosperity under a system in which they are creatures of their states.

Can Seattle get its leadership groove back?

Mon, Oct 17, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

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.

The Cascadia conundrum: Balkanized transportation

Tue, Oct 4, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Puget Sound is a poster child for the problems of regional transportation planning. One big roadblock: long-standing distrust of Seattle.

The density-bashers raise some good questions

Mon, Sep 12, 2 a.m.

By Roger Valdez

...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.

Sick suburbs, expiring exurbs

Wed, Aug 31, 2 a.m.

By Mark Hinshaw

Seattle and the great sorting of our households

Mon, Aug 29, 2 a.m.

By Dick Morrill

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.