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Are King County Metro’s Fare Policies Just? An Examination of Racial Bias in Fare Enforcement
In 2019, King County Metro auditors found that fare enforcement disproportionately impacts people experiencing houselessness and housing insatiable riders. These findings resulted in a policy change in an attempt to make ... -
Are Neighborhood Bicycle Greenways the Answer? Analyzing the Impact of Bicycle Greenways on Collisions between Bicycles and Motor Vehicles
With the population of urban areas growing at a rapid pace, cities are turning to new methods to manage the increased demand placed on space in the roadway. This increased demand carries the unfortunate side effect of ... -
Assessing the relationship between city growth and electricity use over time: A comparative analysis of Chandigarh and Seattle
Urbanization in developing countries will be one of several global processes that define the 21st century. The ramifications of hundreds of millions of rural citizens transitioning to urban lifestyles are multifold and ... -
Augmented Reality Games as an Urban Planning Tool: An Exploration of Pokémon GO
When the mobile location-based augmented reality game Pokémon GO came out in July 2016, it exploded in popularity as hundreds of millions of players got out walking, explored their communities, and gathered in public ... -
Barriers to a Successful and Sustainable Dynamic Car-pooling System
With technology developed in recent years, dynamic car-pooling has started to become a phenomenon. Compared to traditional car-pooling, dynamic car-pooling apps allow users to car-pool on-demand with their smartphone, ... -
Barriers to Transportation and Well-Being in King County: An exploration of how subsidized public transportation could eliminate barriers to transportation and increase opportunities for improved well-being
Barriers to transportation directly and indirectly influence individual and population health and well-being. One major barrier to transportation is the cost. King County Metro has created a fully subsidized public transit ... -
Becoming Green Places: Attachment to Public Green and Recreational Space Among Multi-Unit Dwellers in Ballard
The use of public green and recreational space has been transformed by increasing urbanization, densification, and residential unaffordability, and by the Covid-19 pandemic. This research seeks to discover how public green ... -
Beyond Integrity: Prioritizing Historic Significance over Historic Integrity for a Representative Landscape of Built Cultural Heritage in Seattle's Central District
Traditionally, the field and practice of historic preservation in much of the Western world has valued primarily white, European, upper-class male history and heritage. This is in large part because historic integrity is ... -
Bicycle Infrastructure Safety: A Review and Application of the Case-Control Methodology
As of 2013 the City of Seattle has 44 miles of bike lanes installed on city roadways. The 2014 Seattle Bicycle Master Plan calls for many new miles of bike lanes, cycle tracks, and neighborhood greenways. This report ... -
Bicycling and the built environment: route choice and road safety
Bicycling is an environment-friendly, healthy, and low-cost transportation mode that is especially suitable for short distance travels. There is a bicycling renaissance in the North America, and Seattle takes a leading ... -
Bicyclists’ Stopping Behaviors: An Observational Study of Bicyclists’ Patterns and Practices
This thesis presents an observational research describing the stopping behaviors used by bicyclists at intersections controlled by stop signs and/or flashing beacons in the City of Seattle. The primary intent is to identify ... -
Breaking the Automobile Addiction: A Vision for Transit-Oriented Development in Seattle
Cities have recognized the need to shift to a more walkable, transit-friendly urban form to reduce reliance on the personal automobile. Since the concept of transit-oriented development (TOD) was coined by Peter Calthorpe ... -
Building Justice: Imagining a Political Agenda
Reform of US incarceration facilities is a moral imperative that requires the integration of aspects of community planning, architecture, and legal and political agendas. The complexity of the challenge has only increased ... -
The Built Environment, Obesity and Walking
This dissertation focuses on the influence of the built environment on the geographic distribution of walking behavior and the obese epidemic. Fundamentally, obesity results from energy imbalance. The study aims to help ... -
The Built Environment, Walking, and Physical Activity: A Comparison between Korean Immigrants and Caucasian Women in King County, WA
(2014-02-24)The number of immigrants is continuously increasing in the U.S., and their rapid weight gain over time since entering this country has become a serious health concern. Immigrant and ethnic minority women have been shown ... -
Business Signage Control in Seattle's Chinatown International District, Pursuing Healthy Balance of Preservation and Commercial Vitalization in a Historic Commercial Districts
Chinatown International District (Chinatown-ID) is a historic commercial neighborhood in the City of Seattle (the City). The neighborhood is characterized with historic mixed-use buildings from the early 20th century, and ... -
Buying Time for the Farmers of Chengdu: Settlement Form, Labor Time Allocation, and their Implications for Resilient Land Use Planning in a Rapidly Urbanizing Region
The thesis explores differences among rural households in their allocation of labor to the different types of work – specifically food and non-food agricultural production and wage-jobs – and potentially related factors ... -
Case Study: Commercial Gentrification in the Pike/Pine Corridor
The Pike/Pine corridor is a vibrant, densely populated area within the greater Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. The area has distinct architectural character due to its history as Seattle’s auto-row. After much of the ... -
The changing urban structure of Tacoma, Washington
(1965)The cities and towns on Puget Sound have had varied and colorful periods of growth and development. This paper is a study of one of these cities and it attempts to point out some of the driving forces which caused Tacoma, ... -
Child Walkability Across Seattle Census Tracts: Comparing Child-Friendliness Through Geospatial Analysis and an Equity Lens
Seattle, Washington, has faced massive economic and population growth over the past decade. And as a result, there have been concerns of continued racial inequity and displacement. One topic less studied has been on the ...