A Tale of Two Skylines: Why Downtown Vancouver Has So Much More Housing Than Seattle
I recently wrote an article in "Post Alley", a Seattle publication, about this. Here are the summary points: 1. Relative to its metro population, Vancouver ...
Add Graffiti to the List of West Coast Urban Problems
Several days ago, both the LA Times reported on how taggers had spray painted their names on the corner windows of three +20-story buildings in ...
In Central Vancouver, Housing Overtakes Jobs
I'm just spent several days there, where everywhere we went there were people walking, even at 11 on a Sunday night. When Americans see the ...
“We Actually Don’t Have a Restroom”
That word "actually" is always interesting, and it came from a Starbucks barista in the center plaza of Portland State University, a transit-oriented place that ...
Pop-Ups and Beer, Bread, and Bicycles Won’t Be Enough To Revitalize Ailing Office Areas
This article quotes people who call for revitalizing cities with ground-floor retail and bringing in craft industries like those making beer, bread, and bicycles. Maybe, ...
What’s Not Being Measured in the Pedestrian Statistics for Downtown Portland
Maybe it's all in a name, but the statistics only show counts for the area south of Burnside, and, interestingly enough, two of the three ...
Oregon Governor Stepping Over Portland Mayor To Fix Downtown
She will co-lead a task force with the CEO of The Standard, a well-run company that has long been a good corporate citizen. Who called ...
WeWork Bankruptcy: New York City, Boston, and Miami May Be Hit Especially Hard
There's little public information about how much space WeWork occupies in individual markets, but its 10K for 2023 states that on a square foot basis ...
When It Comes To Retail, Denser Development Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Urban
I took this photo near downtown Bellevue while trying to cross N.E. 4th Street from the Target store in a multi-story project on the south ...
A New UC Campus in Downtown SF is a Great Idea… and a Non-Starter
For years, California has been falling behind in the construction of UC campuses. (The last, Merced, was started in 1988, and it's up to only ...