Culture
Can you walk from wok to wok on Capitol Hill?
In a city where Asian cuisines mixes with the all-American hamburger, walking from dining spot to dining spot can be part of urbanism.
Chuck Wolfe
Chuck Wolfe provides a unique perspective about cities as a London-based urbanist writer, photographer, land use consultant and former Seattle land use and environmental attorney. He is currently a Vi
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Politics
Waiting, statue-like, for the next count
In the mayor's race, the slow process of counting mail-in ballots has left the candidates frozen.
Politics
From 1911, the Bogue Plan speaks
The nearly 100-year-old "city beautiful" plan for the city, never adopted, still holds a worthy reminder.
Politics
Learning from Detroit, the City of Ruin
A city that defines urban decline was once like Seattle, built on a dominant transportation industry. Can it become a laboratory for urban reinvention?
Politics
Crime prevention through urban design
Seattle's debate over how to create safer streets should include talk of crime-fighting tools like strategic lighting, low bushes and picket fences.