The Urbanist
The Urbanist is a nonprofit, city-focused news outlet covering urban policy and planning with a strong emphasis on the Seattle region and Washington State.
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 61
- Latest publication
- Sep 29, 2026
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- Top 1M sites
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Pending Fiscal Cliff at SDOT Prompts Major Budget Shifts (opens the original)
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The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is making "dynamic changes" to its budget for the rest of 2026 all the way through 2028 to sidestep a major looming budget shortfall. Those adjustments are set to cause some painful cuts, and significantly limit the ability of Mayor Katie Wilson's administration to prioritize new transportation projects in the future.Across the next two years, SDOT's budget is set to take a
Katie Wilson’s City-Centered Anti-Fascist Playbook Emerges at Author Talk (opens the original)
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Last week, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor made an appearance at Seattle Town Hall in conversation with Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson to promote their new book, End Times Fascism, which has become
Clyde Hill Brokers Deal to Settle Growth Plan Complaint (opens the original)
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The tucked-away enclave of Clyde Hill is poised to create a new affordable housing incentive program, prompted by a legal challenge that city leaders have been attempting to settle for over a year. The modest tweak to its land use code, considered at a public hearing last week at the Clyde Hill planning commission, would grant property owners slightly more building rights in exchange for furthering the city's state-mandated affordable housing require
A First Look at the New Amtrak Cascades Fleet (opens the original)
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Train riders across the Pacific Northwest are just a few days away from a new era of regional train travel, with the first set of next-generation Airo trains poised to enter service this Wednesday. These shiny train cars and glistening locomotives will ultimately ply the rails on regional routes across the country, but the Amtrak Cascades routes from Vancouver, B.C. to
Sunday Video: Seattle's Link Is Almost Too Good to Be Real (opens the original)
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Ray Delahanty of CityNerd did a video on the 2 Line, now that the light rail corridor spans Lake Washington connecting Seattle, Bellevue, and Redmond – and stretching north to Lynnwood in a segment overlapping with the 1 Line. Delahanty ranked the Eastside stations from worst to best. Toward the worse end of the spectrum was <a href="https://www.theurbanist.org/first-look-at-south-bellevue-station-east-links-temporary-
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