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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.

Retro ideas from the Seattle World's Fair that today's urbanists should embrace

Wed, Jun 15, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Ten reasons Seattle's urban advocates should look at Century 21 as a role model, not a relic.

Will the last family leaving Seattle please turn out the lights?

Mon, Jun 13, 1:34 p.m.

By Dick Morrill

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.

Osama in the 'burbs

Thu, May 5, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

It makes sense. What better place for privacy?

Is a 'green' idea discredited by a Seattle drainage project gone awry?

Fri, Apr 22, midnight

By Lisa Stiffler

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.

Census shows Bellevue's growing Asian, minority population

Thu, Apr 21, 2 a.m.

By Collin Tong

Approximately 40 percent of the city is now minority, and Bellevue has the highest percentage of Asian residents of any city in Washington state.

How does your Valley grow?

Mon, Mar 28, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

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.

Will state debt bring paralyzing protests our way?

Tue, Feb 22, 2 a.m.

By Roger Valdez

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.

Can suburbs be reinvented for 21st century?

Sun, Feb 20, 5 a.m.

By Mary Newsom

To make suburbs fit into modern realities, we will have to re-imagine and re-engineer them.

The future of the strip mall: downhill

Sun, Feb 13, 2 a.m.

By Edward T. McMahon

Suburban strips with huge parking lots are losing favor, thanks to economic shifts, rising gas prices, and more appealing pedestrian-friendly town centers.

A Chinese restaurant that's nothing like you would expect

Fri, Feb 11, 2 a.m.

By Hugo Kugiya

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.

Think growth always brings prosperity? Not so fast

Sun, Jan 30, 2 a.m.

By Mary Newsom

One study by an Oregon-based consultant challenges the assumption that fast-growing cities attract more jobs and greater wealth.

Happiness: There's something about Northwest communities

Wed, Jan 26, 2 a.m.

By Floyd McKay

Open space and education are values that attract people here, and they seem to be factors in our sense of well-being.

Eastside rail line: Can suburbia deal with a freight train?

Thu, Jan 20, 2 a.m.

By C.B. Hall

Freight trains are better for the environment than big trucks that haul goods, so why are so many groups opposed to shipping freight along a track into Redmond?

How Seattle is exporting its poor people

Wed, Nov 10, 2 a.m.

By Dick Morrill

A look at new Census data shows the effects of gentrification and new urbanist planning for the region, with families and poor people fleeing to the south of Seattle.