Urbanist contrarian Joel Kotkin thinks that the real drivers of metropolitan economies are not the hipsters in the core but the families in the burbs. Accordingly, he predicts that family-friendly cities (Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham) will have the strongest job growth. Those cities fa
After 68 years, the nation's first racially integrated public housing community faces enormous change. So what will happen to the people who live there?
After deciding who should be president, the state of the university housing system, and how good my sister's stuffing is, we got down to the real knock-down, voices raised discussion: when, exactly, did Seattle become a real restaurant town, and who were the players?
These breaking-news photos have just arrived from the street. The annual Macy's day-after-Thanksgiving holiday parade in Seattle passed Crosscut world headquarters downtown today. The weather was beautiful and a wonderful time was had by all. Also, a whole lot of commerce was transacted.
John Silber, the bad-boy former president of Boston University, has a new screed out, a book entitled Architecture of the Absurd. It's an attack on the excesses of ego-crazy architects, who put up buildings that don't work, cost too much, defy engineering prudence, and set new records in the Exhibit
