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Tag: Smart Growth & Density

Suburban houses

Trump’s racism won’t win the suburbs… but it may diversify them

July 31st, 2020 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning

Donald Trump’s recent comments “could serve to nudge more passive supporters of discriminatory housing policy toward a ‘come to density’ moment,” Eric Levitz argues.

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Dark clouds over San Francisco

How San Francisco broke America’s heart

May 27th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning

“To many inhabitants, San Francisco has become unrecognizable in a decade, as though it had gone on a cosmetic surgery bender,” writes Karen Heller.

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Seattle: lose your ego, get an ambassador

October 12th, 2017 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Public Planning

“In our own minds,” writes Knute Berger, “Seattle is a gleaming model of progressivism. But folks look at homelessness, housing prices, affordability, crime, taxes and traffic and, at the very least, have their doubts. They shake their heads, and some sneer: This is the progressive city on the hill?”

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Oso neighborhood never should have been built

June 8th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment, Public Planning

Oso neighborhood never should have been built The Seattle Times has an in-depth article today about the neighborhood that was destroyed in the Oso mudslide

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Risk of massive slide ‘unforeseen’? Warnings go back decades

March 25th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment, Public Planning

Risk of massive slide ‘unforeseen’? Warnings go back decades The Seattle Times connects with geologists who have long been concerned with the a catastrophic failure

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