The 43rd has it all: 18 out of the 20 precincts that went highest for Katie Wilson, with more than 80% of the vote, and her five worst-performing precincts, in Broadmoor and Laurelhurst.

quadruple decker (with elevator) full of 3-bedroom units, daylight on 4 sides. www.msa-architekten.ch/node/465

I remember long debates on whether "Climate Shock" as book title would come across as catastrophizing. 10 years later, it's an above-the-fold NYT headline.

Home insurance premium shooting up within less than a decade www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history

Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu. Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.

U can have a park for the people or park cars. The town of Tulln in Lower Austria made the choice for the people. They turned a concrete desert into a green paradise at the very heart of the city. We need more of these transformations. For families, seniors, teenagers…..

Park statt Parkplatz, Grünoase statt Asphaltwüste: In Tulln wurden mehr als 150 Parkplätze durch einen grünen Park für Menschen ersetzt. Ist viel schöner, verbessert Mikroklima und Lebensqualität. Nachahmenswert! #Klimakrise #Klimawandelanpassung

"Starvation, economic collapse, civil unrest and wars are among the risks we face if we don’t take decisive action to limit further global warming and preserve nature, leading experts in #climate, food, health and security warned today in London" @nebriefing.bsky.social

yo @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

that's riiight

floor plan of a dual aspect 3-BR apartment in a zuerich cooperative... $2,100 for a 3-BR is about half what a market rate 3-bedroom in seattle is right now

it's pretty incredible we are exempting construction sales tax on office to residential rehabs (not a great deal for downtown) - but not affordable housing, or community-led development like cohousing, coops, baugruppen, CLTs harrell.seattle.gov/2025/02/11/s...

Here’s my offer to retailers: I’ll pay for the bike racks in front of your store. In return, I’ll receive €1/$1 from you for every customer with a bike as a return on my investment in your store.

He is risen

Excited by the prospect of Mamdani bringing his communication skills to talking about basic public functions and the people that provide them.

montlake urban village when?

Some 60,000 families, many of them climate refugees, live in the area spread over 65 hectares.

The Great Downzoning h/t @benschneider.bsky.social

data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

this is right where i had a car try to run me down on the burke. there need to be bollards here.

wtaf

Just hear me out on this. Cars are the problem.

As @typewriteralley.bsky.social has said, if Clyde Hill can declare an emergency to block implementing their comp plan, then Seattle can declare an emergency to go further than the comp plan. Comp plans can't only be binding in one direction.

(OC) Some shots from my recent trip to Munich r/brutalism

The pattern of Harrell using the Mayor's office to boost his campaign is clear as day for anyone who wants to look.

Oh no. It gets worse. Not only do folks trying to replace a Rad Power battery included in the CPSC safety warning need to buy a replacement since Rad refused a recall, the new batteries also require a new charger, sold separately for another $60.

do you know how much better the comprehensive plan update would have been if we'd had an actual climate leader in office? we have wasted years on a watered down and visionless plan with zero climate priority one that removed affordable housing for luxury townhomes 2030 is in just 5 years.

i just got a new batch of my books. anyone know if @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social needs a copy?

PHantastic! Wait - does PHimby mean “Passive House forward?” PHPHimby for the win! Passive House Public Housing YES!

Thanks, @holz-bau.bsky.social for writing this excellent book. American planners and urbanists have a lot to learn from the insights of an architect and urban designer like you. We need more of those insights in the profession

Thanksgiving week reading

An amazing amount of work went into this bsky.app/profile/ucla... study/report/infomaps, etc on the damaging legacy of racist highway construction in communities and cities up and down the state. cal.streetsblog.org/2025/11/25/u...

Also bsky.app/profile/lane...

single stair cited

duff and lambert both oppose safe streets and bike lanes so...

What happens when you downzone? Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago. Findings: —Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas; —Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.

AI = climate arson

Another parking lot to be removed shortly… #Utrecht

Manufacturing culture wars allows Republicans to sound faux populist without having to address the practical problems faced by most Americans — lack of paid sick leave, unaffordable child care and elder care, stagnant wages, and inadequate housing. Don’t fall for it.

Our built environment isn't ready for the changes we've made to our natural environment.

nice

this plus CT's single stair reform = big housing wins

imagine what we could be doing if the federal government wasn't actively trying to throttle the growth of this industry

Melissa Bruntlett in the NY Times today! Follow her via: @modacitylife.com

the best and most useful carbon capture and sequestration program that not only sequesters carbon *but also* saves money (and further reduces operational carbon because it's building insulation)... is ecococon's passivhaus prefab exterior wall panels. youtu.be/aHXUpv4nDgU?...

The Trump administration’s cuts to AIDS funding will result in roughly 3 million additional deaths over the next five years.

loser stuff thread www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

Bicycles showing the way on #WorldSustainableTransportDay #ThisMachineFightsClimateChange 🚲🚲