Living in the City: Opponents, Quarters, Anonymity, and Spontaneity
The term “urbanist” and “urbanism” have been weighed down with more significance than they deserve, then trivialized and emptied of meaning by overuse. I think “urbanist” is one who talks about cities, and buildings, and policies, and articles, and statistics. But living in a city is how we can experience and know why they work […]
It Might Be Time for Guaranteed Income for Seattle’s Poorest
Imagine if poor people living in Seattle were guaranteed a minimum level of income for housing costs. I don’t like the standard typically used to establish the normative standard for housing costs—30 percent of gross monthly income discounted by some percentage of Area Median Income—but let’s start with that. In my thought experiment everyone earning 30 percent […]
Dude, Where’s My Journalism
Locally based writer for the New York Times Tom Egan trotted out a bunch hackneyed terms and phrases about growth in an article titled “Dude, Where’s My City?” It left me asking Egan, “Dude, where’s your editor?” Here’s a paragraph that was among the worst: Rising rents threaten to push out the quirky and creative types […]
