max: i followed the tech industry very closely and i did not know there was this neighborhood, south lake unionnorth of downtown. there is the regular downtown. i did not know how dramatic the change had been. this story started as a moody report about what things were like there. then, this other thing was going on which was, you have all of these mayors going to this neighborhood to check it out. it has become a developers valhalla. everyone wants to be like seattle. the truth is that people who live there are not so sure. seattle is in this moment where it is at the height of its power, but there are all these questions. we decided to look at that. that paired with the essay about how to fix these things give us an interesting picture of how technology is changing cities and what the solutions are. jason: we have to talk about miami because that story is terrifying. terrifying is the only word that captures it. i have to think miami is not the only city experiencing these issues around climate change, but not the obvious ones. max: everybody thinks climate change is going to come from rising

and the city is a neighborhood called south lake union.t was built up by paul allen, the microsoft cofounder, and largely inhabited by amazon. but also there are a lot of google buildings are going up there right now, facebook, medical facilities. when i moved here, this was an out of favor neighborhood. no one went there, even though it was right near downtown. it had been a light industrial area. ford had built model t's there. in the 1990's and 1980's, it had become this pedestrian-free area of warehouses and floral supplies. laundromats. even though it was near downtown, people did not go there. it felt like a different world. if they went there, you did not walk because it was completely pedestrian unfriendly. that has changed. when you walk through the neighborhood now, it is full of mainly tech workers holding their handbrewed coffee, rushing off to their jobs. it is full of office buildings, whole foods, trendy restaurants, craft cocktail emporiums. carol: and amazon has 8.1 million square feet, pretty amazing. dina: it is. when we