Culture
Travel Like You Live Here: Seattle
Writer Hanna Brooks Olsen guides CityLab through the Emerald City.
Travel Like You Live Here is a series in which wonky locals show CityLab around their home turf.
When CityLab wanted to visit Seattle—that laid-back outpost transformed by a white-hot housing market and influx of tech riches—we tapped the local writer Hanna Brooks Olsen to show us around. From 2013 to 2017, Olsen was the editor-in-chief of Seattlish, which went deep on wonky, hyper-local issues from housing to land use and ballot initiatives.