• Does Rail Transit Induce Displacement? A Longitudinal Study of 24 US Metro Areas From 2000-2017 

  Clute, Eric

  After decades of decline, large US cities have begun reinvesting in urban neighborhoods including the construction of rail transit. Concerns over rail transit’s role in driving displacement has become hotly debated. Community ...

• Let the Street Dance Back into the Street: How a Danceable Public Realm May Support a More Inclusive Seattle 

  Yao, Xuting

  This thesis studies how an artist community based on a shared activity (street dance) approaches the urban environment and uses urban space in Seattle neighborhoods. Street dance is a vernacular dance in the urban context, ...

• Reclaiming the Right of Way: A New Infill Model for the Urban US A Seattle Case Study 

  London, Kristian

  Like many US cities, Seattle is facing a housing affordability crisis. Could its streets serve as an unrecognized publicly-controlled asset to combat this crisis while also disincentivizing private vehicles? Expanding on ...

• Seattle Vision Zero Street Improvements to Reduce Traffic Related Injuries and Deaths: What is the Economic Impact to Local Businesses? 

  Osterhage, Daniel R

  Vision Zero is a road safety project, originating in Sweden, with the goal of eliminating all road traffic fatalities and injuries through street design changes.(1)(2) While proven to lead to improved safety, city ...

• Prioritizing Areas for King County Metro Transit’s Feeder-to-Fixed Route Flexible Services: A Preliminary Approach for the Systematic Locational Prioritization of Future Services 

  Munkel, Daniel

  This work presents an approach for systematically prioritizing areas in King County, Washington for future feeder-to-fixed route (F2FR) flexible service. This approach is meant to inform service planning processes for King ...

• Cultural Resilience in Diasporic Communities: The Case of the Arab Community in Greater Seattle Area 

  Hasan, Rawan

  Urban design and the placemaking profession are centered on a dominant model of spatial production of the public realm. Non-dominant groups, including the immigrant communities like Arabs, are underrepresented and often ...

• The Impact of Light Rail Station Type on Single Family Residential Property Value in the City of Portland, OR 

  Ning, Siman

  Light rail projects increase accessibility and light rail stations should result in a land value uplift (LVU) benefit for housing near stations. Extensive research has tested this hypothesis, generally using distance or ...

• Community governance and Urban Design in an Historic Preservation District: The Case of Pingjiang Historic Block in Suzhou, China 

  Hu, Yichao

  Community governance in planning is an emergent topic in China, where urban planning generally has not included community planning as a local participatory practice. This thesis focuses on Suzhou's old communities in the ...

• Site-Specific Transportation Demand Management in Seattle: A review of transportation management programs in Downtown and South Lake Union 

  McKnight-Slottee, Mairin

  Transportation planning has shifted to focus on accessibility, sustainability, and the efficiency gained by strategic coordination with land use planning at the municipal level. In Seattle, the nexus of land use and ...

• A study of senior-friendly transportation services in Beijing 

  Cheng, Linya

  With the increasing population of the elders in China, many social challenges arise. To make travel easier for the elderly, new technology can be used to increase transportation services. This thesis will use successful ...

• Seattle’s Waterfront: An Exploration in Site Analysis 

  Wallace, Sarah

  On February 28, 2001, the Nisqually Earthquake shook the Seattle Waterfront, damaging the Alaskan Way Viaduct, a north/south state highway running along the waterfront. The damage to the Viaduct initiated a larger conversation ...

• A False Promise of Green, Equitable Urban Growth? A Critical Review of the Literature and Implications for Seattle 

  Shields, Chloe

  Sustainability has permeated the study and practice of urban planning over the past 30 years. Yet situating social and environmental priorities on the same plane of planning interests as economic growth invariably generates ...

• Design Implication from Public Life Data Around Bus Stations: Two Case Studies in Seattle 

  Liu, Yang

  Public space is essential to people’s everyday life. It can improve people’s happiness, health, as well as the prosperity of the region. As people rely more and more on public transit, transit stations bring a significant ...

• Prioritizing Areas for King County Metro Transit's Feeder-to-Fixed Route Flexible Services: A Preliminary Approach for the Systematic Locational Prioritization of Future Services 

  Cowick, Morgan

  This work presents an approach for systematically prioritizing areas in King County, Washington for future feeder-to-fixed route (F2FR) flexible service. This approach is meant to inform service planning processes for King ...

• Pedestrian Exposure to PM2.5 in Commercial Core, Seattle 

  Chen, Qi

  The thesis explores how environmental factors influence pedestrian exposure to PM2.5 by collecting and analyzing air quality data in Downtown Seattle, Washington. After reviewing related research, the influences from outdoor ...

• Tactical Urbanism Demonstration Projects as Community Participation 

  Simpson, Charlie

  Tactical urbanism projects, particularly short-term demonstration projects, are an increasingly popular method of community participation as part of the planning process but have not been included as part of the urban ...

• Estimation and Inference in Changepoint Models 

  Jewell, Sean William

  This thesis is motivated by statistical challenges that arise in the analysis of calcium imaging data, a new technology in neuroscience that makes it possible to record from huge numbers of neurons at single-neuron resolution. ...

• Non-Gaussian Graphical Models: Estimation with Score Matching and Causal Discovery under Zero-Inflation 

  Yu, Shiqing

  Graphical models specify conditional independence relations between variables. These include undirected graphical models and directed graphical models, the latter of which also capture causal relationships. This dissertation ...

• Space-Time Contour Models for Sea Ice Forecasting 

  Director, Hannah Marie

  This dissertation develops statistical methods for modeling contours. Particular emphasis is placed on forecasting the sea ice edge contour, or the boundary around ocean areas that are ice-covered. Current sea ice forecasts ...

• The effect of speaker-specific information on perceptual voice rating tasks 

  Sauder, Cara

  The effect of speaker-specific information on perceptual voice rating tasks Cara Sauder Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Tanya Eadie Speech & Hearing Sciences Auditory-perceptual voice assessment and ...

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