Fred Bassetti's legacy: Modernism that feels good to the human hand

In the early days of Seattle reform politics, starting in the late 1960s with the effort to save the Pike Place Market and toss out the greybeards of the City Council, Fred Bassetti was a key figure, along with his great architectural buddy, the late Ibsen Nelsen, and others such as Ralph Anderson, George Bartholick and Grant Jones. They were early, loud, persuasive, tenacious voices for urbanism and urban planning, and Seattle owed a great deal to their advocacy.