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  • Daily Score Classic: Car-less Vacation, Five Lessons

    Oct 17, 2008
    Author: Alan Durning
    Editor’s note: In honor of our “Escape to Vancouver” Sweepstakes, we’re “recycling” one of our most popular posts. Sign up for Sightline Daily emails between now and October 29 and you, too, could experience a car-less vacation to Vancouver, BC!   Our car-less family vacation in Vancouver, BC, was a big success. Here’s a full report, for those of you who shared your own car-lessvacation stories and are interested in...
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  • UPDATED: Fifteen Thoughts on the Coronavirus and Cities

    Apr 7, 2020
    Author: Dan Bertolet

    Seattle's Aurora Avenue and the downtown skyline, April 7, 2020. Photo by Dan Bertolet.

    UPDATE 4/17/20: Since publishing this I’ve been trying to keep up with the ongoing firehose of related stories and happenings in a big bad Twitter thread (click “show this thread” once it opens on Twitter): What did I get right? What did I get wrong? What did I miss? Threading through the 15 things…https://t.co/0ht4s9x14H — Dan Bertolet (@danbertolet) April 9, 2020 Here’s a cheat sheet to navigate the thread: 1....
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  • Thanks to Comprehensive Street Design, Vancouver Sows for the Future

    Aug 8, 2018
    Author: David Goldberg

    17-1616 by Dylan Passmore used under CC BY-NC 2.0

    Editor’s note: This is Part 2 in a four-part series on how trees and plants help to slow traffic, ameliorate climate change impacts and make growing cities more livable. Read Part 1 here. When it comes to cultivating plants and walkability together, Vancouver, BC, over the last two decades has reaped a harvest of low-hanging fruit on its residential streets. Today, though, the city is looking to plow new ground...
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  • Small Homes, Big Climate Dividends for Cascadia

    Jul 18, 2018
    Author: Margaret Morales

    Walking along University Avenue in Seattle by Seattle Department of Transportation used under CC BY-NC 2.0

    This article is part three in a mini-series about the climate benefits of ADUs. If you are eager for more, check out part 1 and part 2. My son has chubby feet. There’s (almost) no getting around them, literally: most shoes simply do not fit. Luckily, a certain chain kids clothing store actually carries a line of shoes that fit his chunky trotters. And even more luckily, the store had...
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  • Opening Parks to More Seattleites

    Jun 21, 2017
    Author: Margaret Morales

    Denny Park Play Area by Seattle Parks used under CC BY 2.0

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    Jun 10, 2015
    Author: Pivot
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  • Northwest Election Results, November 2012

    Nov 7, 2012
    Author: Alan Durning, Jennifer Langston, Eric de Place and Anna Fahey
    Voting check
    It was a long and brutal campaign season for the Northwest, as for the rest of the United States. In the end, it brought a historic vote on marriage equality, a new approach to marijuana regulation, a small leftward shift in the Oregon House and the Northwest’s Congressional delegation, election of a strong champion for clean energy to the governor’s mansion in Olympia, and an awful lot of the same people—or...
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  • Weekend Reading 6/22/12

    Jun 22, 2012
    Author: Eric Hess
    Clark: Conservative blogger James Bacon makes the case for smart growth, largely founded on eliminating government subsidies for cars, and relaxing zoning restrictions so that homes and businesses aren’t so rigidly segregated. An example: Many counties have imposed density limitations on new growth with the thought that they would limit the impact of development on roads and schools. But smearing 1,000 people over 1,000 acres of land is impossible to...
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  • Freeing Food Carts

    Mar 15, 2012
    Author: Eric Hess

    Portland's laws are Poutine-friendly. When will Seattle and Vancouver catch up? Photo by pkingdesign, flickr.

    Editor’s note: Eric posted Seattle and Vancouver follow ups to this piece. Whatever you’re craving, you can probably find it on sale at a parking lot in Portland. Barbecue jackfruit fried pie? Try Whiffies on Hawthorne. Foie gras over potato chips? Eurotrash on Belmont. Kimchi quesadilla? Koi Fusion on Mississippi. It’s no wonder Portland has been heralded as a world-class purveyor of street food. But North American attention to the Rose City’s...
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  • Walk Score Adds Transit, Part 2

    Aug 16, 2010
    Author: Eric Hess
    Walk Score–the popular website measuring your community’s walkability—rolled out a whole ton of new features today. Most notably, you can now get your “Transit Score,” a glimpse of how well your neighborhood is serviced by public transit. The results can be surprising. My apartment in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood boasts a Walk Score of 97—a true “Walker’s Paradise.” But the same address only generates a Transit score of 53. It looks...
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