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By Clair Enlow
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April 26, 2006
Design Perspectives: Smart growth could curb our vertical crisis
Seattleites have overcome their fear of tall buildings and prepare to embrace a tall, skinny skyline.
April is planting month. And when you are growing a city, you need to know its habits as well as its care and feeding.
This month, Seattle's elected officials enacted a new downtown zoning code, the culmination of planning and decisions going back almost two decades. The goal is to shape growth that is healthy and vigorous, creating an inviting habitat for a diverse population.
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Previous columns:
- Design Perspectives: Would housing cure Seattle Center's identity crisis?, 03-22-2006
- Design Perspectives: How to design with nature, not against it, 02-15-2006
- Design Perspectives: Time to turn South Downtown into an ecotopia, 02-01-2006
- Design Perspectives: SEED marks 30 years of change in the South End, 12-28-2005
- Design Perspectives: Will Seattle find a home for homeless memorial?, 11-30-2005
- Design Perspectives: Preparing now for a warmer, wetter future, 10-26-2005
- Design Perspectives: Take a look at how Southeast Seattle is changing, 09-28-2005
- Design Perspectives: More like Vancouver? Read the fine print, 08-17-2005
