Land Use

Bellevue is one step closer in planning its growth for the next 20 years after a series of City Council meetings on the topic...

What’s the secret sauce in creating urban spaces and places that people love? Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes gets into that in his...

The overhaul makes way for 3,000 homes, but a SoDo Makers District with 900 homes didn't make the cut. On Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell...

Right now, the city of Seattle is at a crossroads. As a robust job market, the city has never had a housing plan that...

In rejecting midrise zoning, Councilmember Robertson cited a handshake agreement with homeowners, worrying more homes would "unduly alarm the neighborhoods." If completing legally-mandated, once-in-a-decade planning...

A trip to Cedar Hills Regional Landfill shows garbage’s disappearing act is an illusion. There’s a great episode of 99 Percent Invisible that compares residential waste collection...

North American cities are known for their wide, gridded streets which stand in stark contrast to European city streets that tend to be narrower...

There's a segment of Americans and Canadians that like to say that good urbanism can't be replicated in North American cities because their countries...