About this Blog

Welcome to the Daily Journal of Commerce's SeattleScape blog. This blog focuses on how Seattle shapes itself -- its design, its planning and its aspirations. We will talk about what we're building, what we're losing and what we're preserving.

 

About SeattleScape's Bloggers

Shawna Gamache is the architecture, engineering and city government reporter at the DJC. Gamache is a sixth-generation Seattleite but has lived in other great cities like Boise, Chicago, Portland, Washington, D.C. and St. Petersburg, Russia, so she's got some ideas on what makes our SeattleScape unique.
 

Jon Silver is a DJC reporter and special section editor who has been living in Seattle since 1998. He gained his street smarts growing up on the mean cul-de-sacs of a master-planned community in Omaha, Neb.
 

Patrick Doherty is economic development director for the city of Federal Way. He previously worked for the city of Seattle in planning and development, including managing the Design Review Program from 1994 to 2001. Patrick chaired the Queen Anne/Magnolia/South Lake Union Design Review Board from 2006 to 2008. He lives on Queen Anne Hill, enjoys exploring the city and the greater Pacific Northwest, photography, foreign languages and national and international travel.
 

Matt Hays has loved Seattle since birth. He lives in Belltown, walks nearly everywhere, and recently rediscovered bicycling. Matt is slightly obsessed with issues like pedestrian safety, parks and vibrant neighborhoods. He's read every DJC since high school. Since 1996 Matt has been the proposal writer at Lease Crutcher Lewis.
 

Mark Hinshaw is the director of urban design for LMN Architects. He has served as president of the Washington chapter of the American Planning Association and as president of AIA Seattle. From 1982-1990, he was principal urban designer for the city of Bellevue. His second book, "True Urbanism: Living In and Near the Center," was recently released.
 

Ellen Southard leads the Northwest office of Belt Collins offering civil engineering, planning, landscape architecture, environmental engineering and cultural resource consulting. She has 18 years of experience and a background in history and education. She assists in community planning specific to historic resources, community education and heritage planning.
 

Irene Wall is a north Seattle native. She is the president of the Phinney Ridge Community Council and the Chair of the City Neighborhood Council's Neighborhood Planning Committee. During the day she works in professional services marketing for Tetra Tech Infrastructure Group, a national engineering and architecture firm. After (long) hours, she's a citizen crusader to protect views, open space, and the good life in Seattle.

 

Roger Valdez is a former city council and legislative staffer and consultant with an interest in land use and urban livability. He is currently a research associate at the Sightline Institute, a sustainability think tank based in Seattle.

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