Posts tagged Seattle
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Architecture begins its road home
The December issue of Esquire magazine contains its yearly “Best and Brightest” feature, including a profile of the architect who designed the new Seattle Central Library, Joshua Prince-Ramus. Keep reading…
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Seattle’s South Lake Union Streetcar
During a recent trip to Seattle, I fed my transit craving by examining the city’s fledgling South Lake Union Streetcar. There is more depth to this new streetcar system than just a crass acronym… Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Building one freeway, tearing one down edition
Formula sunk the ICC bike trail: The WashCycle has more details on why the ICC bike trail was dropped for “environmental reasons”. It’s another example of stupid, overly narrow federal funding formulas that lead to distorted outcomes. Keep reading…
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WalkScore heat maps
Walk Score is a fantastic tool that does a good job quantifying something very hard to quantify: how walkable an area is. A Seattle condo even advertised its Walk Score as a selling point. Keep reading…
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Seattle’s waterfront freeway may come down
Thanks to the efforts of Seattle’s People’s Waterfront Coalition, Seattle will be Keep reading…
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Seattle condo advertises its Walk Score
Walkability is a selling point for downtown condos, like this building which put up a banner advertising its perfect 100 Walk Score. Keep reading…