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How A Little Change Can Go Very FAR

Seattle’s Draft Comprehensive Plan is out, and it is quite lame. Leaked documents showed the plan was watered down in the final months…

May 2

How A Little Change Can Go Very FAR

May 2

How the Hypocrisy of Planning Resides in one New York High-Rise

Some stories you just couldn’t make up if you tried. New York City’s Planning Department resides in the Equitable Building in lower…

Sep 5, 2023

How the Hypocrisy of Planning Resides in one New York High-Rise

Sep 5, 2023

Wasting of Maritime

Someone once told me the term “bureaucracy” is intentionally hard to spell. When I first tried to spell it without Googling it, I butchered…

Jun 9, 2023

Wasting of Maritime

Jun 9, 2023

We Need More Chairs!

Sometimes life delivers an irony that even the writers of SNL couldn’t deliver. Earlier this week I attended a community planning event to…

Jan 13, 2023

We Need More Chairs!

Jan 13, 2023

It’s the Cars that Crowd Us Out

Throughout the history of our nation, cities have spawned out of sheer desire to live where opportunity exists. Manhattan took 50 years to…

Aug 22, 2022

It’s the Cars that Crowd Us Out

Aug 22, 2022

Busting The NIMBY Myth of Trickle Down Housing

There is no such thing as “trickle down housing”. You may have heard this misunderstood economic analysis at a community meeting or in the…

Feb 7, 2022

Busting The NIMBY Myth of Trickle Down Housing

Feb 7, 2022

The Lorax

My neighbor Ted Geisel is fuming once again about the debate regarding more homes. This time it involved not just NIMBYs who don’t want to…

Jan 11, 2022

The Lorax

Jan 11, 2022

Give West Seattle’s Lightrail Line to Aurora Avenue

Nobody likes it when someone looks a gift horse in the mouth.

Nov 9, 2021

Give West Seattle’s Lightrail Line to Aurora Avenue

Nov 9, 2021

Adding Space and Cutting Tape

Recently I was asked to present an article written for The Urbanist titled “Seattle has the Space” for the Surrey Board of Trade (SBOT)…

Sep 24, 2021

Adding Space and Cutting Tape

Sep 24, 2021

Historic Preservation of Exclusion

In 1961 locals watched the Seattle Hotel get torn down for a parking garage. The loss of this iconic building tugged at the emotions of…

Sep 2, 2021

Historic Preservation of Exclusion

Sep 2, 2021

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Architectural rambler pining for a more sustainable Seattle. Density advocate | Transit advocate | Family housing advocate | @pushtheneedle (twitter)

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