Seattle's 100-Year Plan For A Green, Livable Future

An open space preservation coalition led a visioning exercise for the future of Seattle, to "design Seattle's green network for the next century".

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May 25, 2006, 7:00 AM PDT

By bmaryman


"As a city, Seattle is not yet 140 years old.

In less than a century from now, its population is likely to have doubled, climate change could diminish its snowpack-fed power supply, and oil prices may have revolutionized the way we travel.

Imagining what kind of open spaces the city will need requires both vision and pragmatism, as the Olmsted brothers employed in the early 1900s when they mapped a series of parks and boulevards that Seattleites treasure today.

Ideas emerging from a two-day Seattle forum in February on developing a new legacy of "green infrastructure" range from restoring shorelines to reclaiming areas leveled by earthquakes to pursuing urban agriculture projects enabling neighborhoods to grow food."

Thanks to Brice Maryman

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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