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Bedrooms without Windows |
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Observations on spaceship earth – settlement, sustainability and the built environment. Toxins, Children and Education →. December 17, 2011. Sleeping Closets a Symptom of Public Health Failures. Codes applicable in the City of Seattlehave reversed one hundred years of public health, zoning and building code practice by allowing sleeping closets (bedrooms with no windows). The codes no longer require natural light and ventilation. [1]. Sleeping closets result in fewer windows and deeper units. The diminis...
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Observations on spaceship earth – settlement, sustainability and the built environment. In Plain Air Architects and Planners 1987-1999 & 2003-2010. Wide-ranging commercial, retail, industrial and residential practice. White Center Community Development Association 2002-2003. Sponsored five International Festivals and Global Supper. Opened a storefront office on Main Street with four partner agencies. Product Development Strategist and Marketing Coordinator. 85 employee contextual search startup. BluPrint...
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Toxins, Children and Education |
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Observations on spaceship earth – settlement, sustainability and the built environment. Toxins, Children and Education. June 7, 2012. Toxins, Children and Education. Children are failing to thrive and learn. People are pointing fingers at teachers, parents, curriculum, funding, drugs and youth culture. What if environmental toxins are contributing to children’s problems? Monitor the environment aggressively, taking advantage of technical advances to sample, test, and preserve evidence of environmental co...
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Seattle Urbanism: Townhouses - Part 1 (Background)
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Unrestrained Advocacy and Criticism for Seattle's Urban Environment. Townhouses - Part 1 (Background). Townhouses have been a subject of much discussion in Seattle over the past few years. During the boom, a lot of them got built, most of which were disgustingly bad. In Seattle, and have been struggling with the task ever since. Our municipal government is now in the throes of re-writing. Which is to say: it has devolved into what the military so colorfully refers as a clusterfuck. Once Upon a Time.
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Seattle Urbanism: Seattle's Inherent Conservatism
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Unrestrained Advocacy and Criticism for Seattle's Urban Environment. Not one to shy away from a little controversy, let's tackle a sensitive subject right out of the gate. Ask most Seattleites whether or not they consider their city to be conservative or not, and the vast majority will answer: No way! Within the limited boundaries of partisan politics, they're right. Only Democrats get elected to office here, and far-left rallying cries are perennial favorites. There's even a statue of Lenin. And the dow...
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Seattle Urbanism: Welcome to Seattle Urbanism!
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Unrestrained Advocacy and Criticism for Seattle's Urban Environment. Welcome to Seattle Urbanism! Welcome to Seattle Urbanism. If you're here, that probably means you have an abiding interest in the quality of Seattle's urban environment, such as it is . or at the very least, a bone to pick with something you think has gone wrong with the form or development of our city. At Seattle Urbanism, we:. An outsider's perspective framed from insider information and expertise,. We therefore prefer minimalist, cat...
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Seattle Urbanism: October 2009
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Unrestrained Advocacy and Criticism for Seattle's Urban Environment. Townhouses – Part 2 (The Problem). Here’s the juicy part. Everyone who lives in Seattle has some kind of opinion about the townhouses that have sprung up like weeds during the last ten or so years. Most of those opinions fall squarely in the negative. On some level, and a significant minority of them can’t be expressed in polite company. But that only explains the. Of the problem, not the. Explain why Seattle got so many atrocious townh...
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Observations on spaceship earth – settlement, sustainability and the built environment. Newer posts →. Housing at Risk (longer, unpublished version). December 4, 2008. The Puget Sound Regional Council projects nearly half a million new residents in the coming decade. Where will they live? For over a decade, Seattle has experienced an unprecedented building boom during which prices were always up, money was cheap, and wealth was inflated by rapid appreciation. Permit fees were low, impact fees unknown and...
