David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
Seattle has been tying itself into knots over its central waterfront, hoping to dynamite an ugly Viaduct and replace it with parks, condos, and upscale retail. Plans came crashing down last March, when voters nixed both a new Viaduct and a tunnel scheme. All the parties are now closeted in quiet sta
Seattle has always modeled itself on San Francisco, and now both cities are having doubts about the model. The California city picked itself up after the dot-com bust by pursuing condos, fine restaurants, young residents, and the new trends in the economy such as biotechnology, green tech, and stem-
Statistics Canada has just released a fascinating study of how people feel about Canadian cities. There's a big surprise. Cities that rank high in international surveys of livability, such as Vancouver and Victoria and Toronto, score poorly with their local residents, when ranked for satisfication a
Only three U.S. cities are still resisting the tumbling real estate market: Charlotte, N.C., Portland, and Seattle. At least so far. This survey in the Los Angeles Times paints a picture of slow sales, crossed fingers, and anxiety. So what makes the three cities defy gravity? The strong economy keep
Arts circles are abuzz over a long, prominently played New York Times investigation of the Seattle Symphony, which was published Sunday and reprinted Monday in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Not surprisingly, the symphony is hoping the bad publicity will pass. The only comment so far is in the form
