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Seattle's pedestrian-umbrella boondoggle
When city budgets are being slashed, is now really the time for a $50,000 pedestrian safety campaign featuring free umbrellas for holiday shoppers?
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How to revive Pioneer Square
Lessons in urbanism from New Orleans, Paris, and Boston. Plus, signs of how the recession is winnowing an oversupply or shops and letting the good ones flourish.
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Seattle should dig into its past
The case for more and better urban archaeology is more important than ever as Seattle prepares for such major projects as a waterfront tunnel and a new Highway 520 floating bridge. Pith helmets, everyone?
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Lessons from Black Friday
It's all about rewarding the wrong things, and aspiring to the wrong kind of metropolitan life.
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An Oregon idea for saving U.W.
Alarmed at the steep drop in state support, state universities are looking to creative finance to rescue their budgets. Here's an idea from Eugene that might play in Montlake.