Browsing by Subject "Land use planning"
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A Different Kind of Gentrification: Seattle and its Relationship with Industrial Land
Industry in Seattle often talks about how they are facing their own kind of gentrification. Rising property values, encroaching pressure for different land uses, and choking transportation all loom as reasons for industrial ... -
Adaptive Reuse and Rehabilitation: Connecting Historic Preservation and Affordable Housing Developments in Seattle, Washington
Seattle has serious housing affordability issues that need to be addressed using multiple tools. In this work, I have identified the utilization of historic buildings as a potential tool for providing affordable housing. ... -
Applying Climate Change Models to Risk Assessment and Flood Hazard Scenario Modeling in Snohomish County
University of Washington Abstract Applying Climate Change Models to Risk Assessment and Flood Hazard Scenario Modeling in Snohomish County Stephen Glenn Veith Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Assistant Professor Himanshu ... -
Assessing the Social Acceptability of Endophyte-Assisted Phytoremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: A Case Study at Gas Works Park
Gas Works Park is a former gas production site that has been converted to a public park. Some of the contaminants have been remediated, however much of the soil is still contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ... -
Density and Built Environments on Suicide Rates: Improving Urban Planning for Mental Health and Well-being
This thesis examines the relationship between the Built Environment and suicide mortality rates, focusing on improving urban planning standards and practices to promote mental health and well-being in communities. The ... -
Disasters are not inevitable: social vulnerability, hazard losses, and adaptive learning in communities of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal watersheds
Hazard losses in the United States have increased over the past several decades. With over one-third U.S. residents living in coastal counties, the potential impacts from hazards related to coasts are a particular concern. ... -
An Evaluation of Land Cover Change from 2006 to 2009 and the Effectiveness of Certain Conservation Land Use Tools Within Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed (WRIA 8) Riparian Buffers
(2013-04-17)Riparian areas are fundamental to the ecological health for salmon recovery in the Pacific Northwest. Efforts to protect riparian areas for salmon recovery have typically focused on public land acquisitions and habitat ... -
Exploring Walkability: a Spatial Analysis of Vibrancy in New Holly, a New Urbanist Community in south Seattle, WA
Walkability is a notion that crosses multiple fields of study including planning, real estate, and public health. Social cohesion and community ideals are equated to walkable areas. For this thesis, walkability is defined ... -
Formal Planning and Neighborhood Change in Ballard, Seattle: An Assessment of the Impacts of 1990's Planning Policy on Attachment and Identity
Seattle is a rapidly growing and changing city. Ballard, a secluded neighborhood in the northwest quadrant of the city, has absorbed significant residential growth over the last two decades and transformed from a quiet, ... -
Growing a greener Tacoma: The historical roots of Tacoma's urban gardening movement
(2012-09-13)Urban gardens have thrived as part of the social fabric of Tacoma since nearly its founding, and in recent years, have experienced resurgence as committed locals work to improve their neighborhoods.The purpose of this ... -
Growing Climate Resilience: An Urban Forest Design Framework
Climate change promises many negative impacts on human physical, mental and community health in the Puget Sound region. Urban forests supply multiple cultural and ecological services, and because of these multiple benefits, ... -
Identification Of Habitat Controls On Amphibian Populations: The Northern Red-Legged Frog In The Pacific Northwest
(2013-07-25)Historically, research addressing vulnerability of stillwater-breeding amphibians focused on reproductive (aquatic) habitat. However, in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), terrestrial (active-season) habitat is also important ... -
Impact of Riparian Landscape Patterns on Water Quality in an Urbanizing River Basin: A Case of Cedar River - Lake Washington Watershed
The increasing concern about the deteriorating water quality in rivers and streams in urban areas has led to a focus on protecting natural riparian land covers along these water bodies. The conversion of these land covers, ... -
Impacts of future climate and landuse on water resources in Espírito Santo, Brazil
Increasing temperature and precipitation changes are expected to bring fundamental changes to the country of Brazil as predicted by Global Climate Models (GCMs) (IPCC, 2007). Potential effects of climate change in Brazil ... -
Land Value under Growth Control in King County
As a hot topic in the field of urban planning, whether growth control is an effective planning tool overall and its potential impacts on land value have been discussed by a lot of literature, yet many of the studies reached ... -
The Location of Public Schools: Implications for Communities and Planners, and School District Decision-Making in the Puget Sound Region
THE LOCATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS: IMPLICATIONS FOR COMMUNITIES AND PLANNERS, AND SCHOOL DISTRICT DECISION-MAKING IN THE PUGET SOUND REGION by Jason Garnham, 2015, 100 pages. Chair of the Supervisory committee: Jan Whittington, ... -
Native Cultural Design: Exploring Design to Address Historical Trauma and Assist with Village Relocation on the Quinault Indian Nation in Taholah, WA
Native American communities are in need of improvement, which I attribute to historical trauma from the deplorable acts that Native American communities have gone through. Historical trauma creates difficulties for the ... -
Night Riders: Accessibility, Land Use, and Late-Night Transit
Late-night transit service is an overlooked and underappreciated aspect of public transportation. Service is often unreliable and very often non-existent. When night service is available, routes are limited and circuitous, ... -
On the Edge: Redevelopment Projects at the Urban-Marine Interface in Vancouver, BC
(2013-04-17)This thesis looks at three urban waterfront redevelopment projects along Vancouver, British Columbia's False Creek that were developed beginning in the 1970s. It seeks to determine to what degree such projects have actually ... -
Planning Effectively for Legalized Recreational Marijuana: An Assessment of Community Land Use Ordinances in Washington State
In November of 2012 the citizens of Washington State voted to legalize the cultivation, processing, sale, and use of recreational marijuana. As legalization unfolds, the experiences of local governments will inform the ...