• The Role of Road Networks in Social Definition and Integration of Angamuco, Michoacán (250–1530 CE) 

  Solinis-Casparius, Rodrigo (2019)

  Road networks can be defined as the movement infrastructure of a city. They are both the resource that guides inhabitants within a settlement, and that defines different levels of social interaction and social organization. ...

• Analysis of the Intended Implementation Strategies of Municipal Climate Action Plans 

  Mathurin, Zachary

  In the United States, many cities have adopted Climate Action Plans (CAPs) to outline strategies to achieve emissions reduction targets. This research focuses on analyzing gaps, strengths, and weaknesses of the actions ...

• The Legacy We Leave Behind: Rehabilitating single room occupancy hotels in Seattle’s Chinatown International District through use of a Legacy Development Fund 

  Surber, Michelle Pope

  A booming regional economy and ever-growing population places stress on established, low-income neighborhoods near the central core of Seattle. Many residents in these vulnerable neighborhoods have been unable to realize ...

• Traffic Impacts of an SOV Mode Split Target Policy: Evaluating Seattle’s New Transportation Concurrency System 

  Simons, Lucas

  Cities in Washington State are required to adopt concurrency policies that stipulate how they will measure the level of service (LOS) of their transportation system. Under the Growth Management Act, cities are also required ...

• RECONCEPTUALIZING VALUE & SPACE: LEARNING FROM THE SLUMDWELLERS OF DELHI 

  Rishi, Susmita

  The world is urbanizing at a rapid rate and since 2009, more people live in cities than in rural areas. As the predominant mode of habitation, cities are understood as the spatialization of capitalist social relations in ...

• Street Vitality: A Socio-Spatial Analysis of S Jackson St 

  Pan, Xuwu

  Vital streets are important to urban environments; they support the various activities that make up the “mixed life” of cities (Francis 2011). In order to understand its significance, this thesis discusses the role of the ...

• Planning for Trust: A Relationship-Centered Approach to Community Engagement in City Planning Practice 

  Prusia, Kizz Swajay

  This thesis outlines Relationship-Centered Community Engagement (RCCE) as a new approach to conducting community engagement in city planning practice. The vision of RCCE is to shift from a transactional approach based on ...

• Incorporating Social Equity in Transit Service and Capital Planning: A Preemptive Analysis of Preliminary Bus Rapid Transit Corridor Design in King County, Washington 

  Kowalski, Ian Andrew

  This study presents an approach for the evaluation of the equity of transportation investments in King County, Washington, with attention to upgrades of existing routes to new “bus rapid transit” service. A review of ...

• Factors associated with the rate of bike plan implementation in American cities 

  Frazier, Jonathan

  Most major American cities have been building out the infrastructure envisioned in their bicycle master plans for at least a decade. Many municipal departments of transportation are steadily building what their plans say ...

• Exploring the Impact of Mixed-Income/Mixed-Use Redevelopments in Building Community Cohesion at Seattle’s Yesler Terrace 

  Joseph, Jonathan

  How do you build community? Is it the building, services, and amenities that we build into communities? Or is it the people, who use buildings, services, and amenities in communities to have experienced, and build relationships ...

• Urban Design for Resilience to Multiple Uncertain Hazard Scenarios - Robust Strategies for Coastal Resilience in Westport, Washington 

  Sreenivasan, Sreya

  This thesis explores the development of robust urban design strategies for resilience in the face of multiple uncertain and complex hazard scenarios. Resilient urban design is illustrated through the case of Westport, a ...

• Equity Impacts of Central Link Light Rail in Seattle, WA 

  Armstrong, Jacob Benjamin

  Central Link Light Rail has unexplored equity impacts to nearby communities. Large-scale infrastructure projects, often with equitable intentions, end up displacing vulnerable communities or aiding in their detriment—the ...

• Estimation and testing under shape constraints 

  Laha, Nilanjana

  This thesis consists of three projects, the common thread to all of which is using shape-restricted densities in inference problems. In the first project, we revisit the problem of estimating the center of symmetry of ...

• Realized genome sharing in random effects models for quantitative genetic traits 

  Wang, Bowen

  DNA copies inherited from the same ancestral copy by related individuals are said to be identical by descent (IBD). IBD gives rise to genetic similarities between related individuals. In quantitative genetics, two fundamental ...

• Fitting Stochastic Epidemic Models to Multiple Data Types 

  Tang, Mingwei

  Traditional infectious disease epidemiology focuses on fitting deterministic and stochastic epidemics models to surveillance case count data. Recently, researchers began to make use of infectious disease agent genetic data ...

• Inferring Network Structure From Partially Observed Graphs 

  Pan, Mengjie

  Collecting social network data is notoriously difficult, meaning that indirectly observed or missing observations are very common. In this dissertation, We address two of such scenarios: inference on network measures without ...

• A Stochastic Neural-Network Parameterization for Coarse-grid Climate Models 

  Renehan, Stewart

  Coarse-grid climate models require parameterizations to include the effect of unresolved sub-grid processes. Recently, machine learning approaches have shown promise in producing more accurate parameterizations than existing ...

• Understanding the vocal learning basal ganglia circuit in zebra finches: Is there co-release of glutamate from midbrain dopamine neurons terminating in area X? 

  Sivalingam, Maneesha

  Vocal learning is the process of acquiring and maintaining one of the many complex motor skills that begins to develop from human infancy, during which the brain reliant on auditory input. In this study, zebra finches, a ...

• Nouns and verbs: Across- and within-language associations in young dual language learners 

  Bueno, Frances

  Studies of young dual language learners (DLLs) suggest that there may be within-language and across-language associations as children acquire two languages. Understanding typical DLL development can support effective ...

• Joint Engagement Behaviors in Preschoolers with Language Impairment 

  Parrish, Lily J

  The present study aimed to extend the joint engagement literature to the sample population of preschoolers with language impairment (LI) by exploring patterns of joint engagement behaviors in this population. A second ...

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