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 Sat, Nov 7, 8 a.m.
It's been a tough year for books and words, but one bright spot was the effort to bring back a Seattle book festival. Some saw the event as a great first effort, others as a fiasco.
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Posted Tue, Nov 3, 6 a.m.
The dispute over an event at West Seattle's Lincoln Park unleashes a "cycle" of anger. Once again, parks make good battlefields.
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Posted Thu, Oct 29, 6 a.m.
Those vaunted 10-year plans to solve the problem are halfway in, or more, and yet homelessness persists. Even so, we're making progress and on the right track.
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Posted Wed, Oct 28, 6 a.m.
I have no answer yet about how to vote in the Seattle mayor's race. Like a lot of people, I'm still working it out.
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Posted Wed, Oct 21, 6 a.m.
One reason not to vote early in Seattle: From here to election day is an eternity, especially with two mayoral candidates like Joe Mallahan and Mike McGinn.
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Posted Tue, Oct 20, 6 a.m.
A new study shows Seattle-area tunnel projects are very likely to break the budget. But the nature of most mega-projects also suggests the Viaduct surface option wouldn't be exempt from cost problems either.
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Posted Sun, Oct 18, noon
Seattle's iconic Pioneer Square bookstore might move. It could also close. Tough times bring tough choices for the bookseller, and the neighborhood it has helped to revive.
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Posted Thu, Oct 15, 6 a.m.
Brookings' Bruce Katz argues in a UW talk that this "metro" can help lead the U.S. toward a new, more prosperous economy.
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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 Thu, Oct 8, 6 a.m.
Mossback's low-cost, low-impact solutions to chronic civic problems.
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Posted Thu, Oct 8, 6 a.m.
A city that defines urban decline was once like Seattle, built on a dominant transportation industry. Can it become a laboratory for urban reinvention?
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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.
Not from local hospitals, that's for sure. The city also is undergoing a remarkable surge of foreign-born and refugees.
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Posted Tue, Sep 29, 6 a.m.
Seattle isn't close to becoming one of the "meanest cities" listed in a national report, but may soon try its own take on the often-harmful "civility laws" sweeping the country
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Posted Fri, Sep 25, 6 a.m.
Some East Coast experts mistake the West for a thinly populated place, a wasteful region for Obama's new rail spending. The numbers tell a different, highly urban story.
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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 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 24, 5:32 p.m.
You can't just block off vehicles and expect a public space. Here are some do's (Boulder, San Antonio) and don't's (Eugene).
MOREPosted Mon, Sep 28, 10:55 p.m.
Focus should be on imposing real penalties on juvenile offenders, not Seattle's symbolic parks ban.
MOREPosted Fri, Jul 31, noon
A Vancouver, BC architect will represent the USA at the Shanghai expo.
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 Thu, Mar 26, 6 a.m.
Kennewick area is third fastest in the nation last year, while Seattle area is 100th, well behind Portland
MOREPosted Wed, Dec 10, 2:42 p.m. 2008
Imagine Seattle's waterfront as bare land, then start planning.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 1, 6 a.m. 2008
Well, maybe not that. But his scheme for a park atop a Viaduct has an exciting counterpart in New York City that is proving a magnet for starchitects.
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 25, 6 a.m. 2008
Obama is a Chicago guy. And cities have figured out how to make a much better case to Congress. Mayor Greg Nickels is in the thick of this new action.
MOREPosted Mon, Nov 17, 8:30 p.m. 2008
A Rust Belt city offers a look at historic preservation, egalitarianism and the wrecking ball.
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