Seattle as model city

[randy_byers]

Edward L. Glaeser's NYTimes article "How Seattle Transformed Itself" has many hallmarks of an ideologue promoting a pet theory, but it's still an interesting overview of the evolution Seattle's economy has gone through in the past 130 years. It's undeniably true that the city is much more economically diverse than when I moved here in 1984, and that urban planning has undergone fairly radical changes. One thing he doesn't mention, however (since it would ruin his pretty picture), is that sprawl has happened at the same time as increasing density.