Urban Design
Four challenges to a great waterfront park
Our designers may be over-reaching, and they may be forgetting how we locals will use the park, year-round.
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Waterfront park design: getting better, but...
The design has been scaled back as budget realities impinge. Is the one remaining "big move" too disruptive and expensive?
Politics
Messing with a park designed by a landscape master
Counterbalance Park, on lower Queen Anne, is the last work by architect Robert Murase. It deserves better than a clunky intrusion of sculpture meant to honor a donor.
Equity
Time to stop snubbing the suburbs?
The notion of a "suburb" is history. Diversity, greater density, more shopping and transportation choices are all part of the new identities of the communities around Seattle.
Politics
San Diego: how NOT to treat a central waterfront
A developer, aided by the daily newspaper he just bought, wants to plop a big football stadium on the harborfront. That's an idea Seattle should not import.