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What is Great City?

Great City is a strategic urban advocacy group that believes smart and responsible urbanism is the solution to many of our social, economic, and environmental challenges. We are effective by engaging and empowering neighborhood groups (Neighborhood Assistance Program), developing and advocating for key urban strategies (Streets for People, Leadership for Great Neighborhoods, and Green Infrastructure), and bringing together public and private professionals to discuss and critique current projects and processes (Great City’s monthly brown bag series at GGLO).

May

16

DIY fire escape table

Posted by Nate Cole Daum

via Apartment Therapy

Cool! But, probably illegal; so don’t try this at home.

;)
The small, portable, and frankly genius Sky Deck table is a mini table designed to “wrap” itself around the rails of balconies or fire escapes, giving you just enough horizontal surface space for a [...] Continue Reading…

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May

15

Around Amazon: two towers, 1,700 living units on the way

Posted by Nate Cole Daum

Downtown Seattle gets bigger as Amazon continues to grow its corporate headquarters.  From the Puget Sound Business Journal:
The latest planning documents for Amazon’s proposed 3 million-square-foot campus in Seattle’s Denny Triangle area show big changes in the neighborhood are expected in upcoming years as numerous projects get built.

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May

14

A series of tubes

Posted by Nate Cole Daum

“Get the scientists working on the tube technology immediately!” [...] Continue Reading…

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May

10

Combining forces: land use advocacy, affordability advocacy

Posted by Nate Cole Daum

When discussing housing affordability, there are two groups of advocates who are constantly talking past each other. By David Alpert of the D.C.-based Greater Greater Washington blog. [...] Continue Reading…

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May

4

Become an urban & environment advocate! Join AdvocacyCorps.

Posted by Nate Cole Daum

Our friends at Futurewise are looking for a few good folks to join in the fight for our future.
Farms, forests and the families who love them will all benefit from the skills you’ll build working with this great organization.

AdvocacyCorps is an intensive ten-week summer bootcamp for aspiring urban & [...] Continue Reading…

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