aLIVe

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).

Aug

18

Free Bumbershoot tickets for aLIVe volunteers!

Posted by Nate Cole-Daum

What if we all imagined a transportation system designed
around the human body, instead of a 40-ton truck?

aLIVe (a Low Impact Vehicle exploration) investigates how artists can re-imagine our existing transportation, transit and storm water systems and inspire the community towards action, innovative solutions and change.

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Aug

17

Streets for All update: Get ready for November!

Posted by Nate Cole-Daum

Fall colors and walkability improvements are two reasons we're excited about November 2011. And layers. Because we're all about dressing in layers.

Thanks to a strong showing at City Council last week, the ballot measure to increase investment in transit, bicycling and pedestrian infrastructure will be [...] Continue Reading…

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Aug

16

New policy expands sidewalk café options for restaurants and bars | West Seattle Herald / White Center News

Posted by Nate Cole-Daum

We’ve blogged about our ideas for reforming sidewalk cafe rules before, noting that it would take a change at the state level to put sidewalk seating in smarter locations from a mobility and accessibility standpoint. We’re thrilled to learn, via the West Seattle Herald, that a new interim rule [...] Continue Reading…

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Aug

12

Streets For All Update

Posted by Nate Cole-Daum

Thank you to the dozens of passionate transportation advocates who joined us in City Council chambers Wednesday to urge a ballot measure reflecting the full recommendations of CTAC III!

A brief Cliff’s Notes version of the story: around two years ago we helped form Streets For All Seattle, a coalition [...] Continue Reading…

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Aug

11

The Agile City

Posted by Nate Cole-Daum

We are big fans of ASLA’s The Dirt, and big fans of thinking big-picture on climate change. Instead of simply looking at new technologies that will allow us to do more of the same (use lots of energy in our daily lives driving everywhere we need to go and [...] Continue Reading…

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