Tag: land use

• Tech Buses and the Death of the Public Sphere

  

  One man’s journey into the abyss to figure out how annoyed he should be (TLDR: pretty annoyed)

  cityhikes

  December 19, 2025

  urban planning, transit, car culture, sound transit, Seattle

  amazon, bus, car culture, land use, private transit, public transit, Seattle, transit, transportation, urbanism, washington

• Sound Transit and the South End

  

  Looking beyond station sites for reasons to be skeptical

  cityhikes

  December 4, 2025

  Seattle, society, sound transit, train, transit, urban planning

  car culture, chinatown, land use, railroad, Seattle, sound transit, transit, transportation, urbanism, washington

• On the DMV’s Ideas For Driving Alternatives

  

  Did I expect the DMV to revolutionize public transit? No, but I’m still disappointed

  cityhikes

  July 16, 2025

  car culture, highway, odot, pedestrian access, transit, trimet, urban planning, walk

  aging, car culture, dmv, elderly, land use, oregon, portland, retirement, transit, transportation, urbanism

• I’m Done With Grad School!

  

  A brief reflection on how it went and what’s to come

  cityhikes

  June 19, 2025

  Uncategorized

  land use, portland, transit, urbanism

• What Makes a District Historic?

  

  The perils of wide-net historic preservation and the folly of Irvington

  cityhikes

  April 23, 2025

  place, portland, society, urban planning, walk

  broadway, historic-preservation, history, irvington, land use, neighborhoods, oregon, portland, real-estate, transportation, travel, urbanism, walking

• Railroads and Planning

  

  Does anyone understand what a railroad even is?

  cityhikes

  April 15, 2025

  place, portland, train, transit, urban planning

  forest park, freight rail, history, land use, oregon, pge, politics, portland, rail, rail policy, railroad, trains, transit, travel, urbanism

• Following The Thread of the O&C

  

  Does a turn of the 20th century scandal railroad scandal still matter?

  cityhikes

  March 27, 2025

  bike, outdoors culture, place, train, urban planning

  california, environment, family-history, forest, genealogy, history, land use, land use policy, oregon, politics, portland, railroad, transit, transportation, urbanism

• How’s That Metro 2040 Plan Going?

  

  Commentary on the state of land use and transportation in the Metro region in 2025

  cityhikes

  March 23, 2025

  car culture, housing, odot, pedestrian access, place, portland, train, transit, trimet, urban planning

  car culture, land use, oregon, portland, public-transportation, transit, transportation, travel, urbanism, walking

• Book Review: A Paradise of Small Houses

  

  Spoiler: I really didn’t like it

  cityhikes

  March 2, 2025

  chicago, housing, los angeles, place, portland, transit, urban planning

  book-reviews, books, boston, chicago, ireland, irish-american, land use, new york, portland, railroad, transit, transportation, urbanism, walking

• Public Transit and Rural Places

  

  How American ideas of rural land cripple rural transit, and why we need to fix it

  cityhikes

  February 25, 2025

  europe, intercity bus, small town, society, train, transit, urban planning

  agriculture, history, land use, news, oregon, post bus, public transit, public transportation, railroad, regional planning, rural land, sustainability, switzerland, transit, travel, urbanism