• Formal Planning and Neighborhood Change in Ballard, Seattle: An Assessment of the Impacts of 1990's Planning Policy on Attachment and Identity 

  Passey Trevino, Anna

  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, ...

• The Kernel-Up Polycentric Model: A Modular, Community-based Urban Development Framework 

  Perkins, Jona

  Humanity will need to build homes and infrastructure for 5 billion people before theend of this century. Unfortunately, cities already face numerous challenges before factoring in decades of sustained, rapid growth. Building ...

• Perceptions of Homelessness in Seattle's Green Lake/Lower Woodland Park 

  Smith, Carmen

  This thesis explores how housed users of Seattle’s Green Lake/Lower Woodland Park view and interpret the presence of homelessness in the park, as well as how they have been impacted by it. Interviews with park users revealed ...

• Established and emerging group build (Baugruppen) development processes 

  Walker, Benjamin

  Regulatory reforms aimed at increasing the housing supply also create new opportunities for households to jointly develop housing for their own use. To achieve goals in sustainable urban development, planners may leverage ...

• Federal Subsidy Overlap in Affordable Rental Housing in the United States 

  Ressler, Samara N.

  The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) programs are two of the largest affordable rental housing programs in the United States. The LIHTC assists in the development and preservation of ...

• "Where's My Money?" Analysis of Federal COVID-19 Rent Relief in Washington Local Governments 

  Lansing, Art

  The COVID-19 pandemic upended the nation and triggered the largest approval and release of Federal rent relief since the 2008 Great Recession. However, in 2020 and 2021 only a small fraction of the Federal rent relief was ...

• Does Climate Investment Funding Intensify Green Gentrification in San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley Bay Area? 

  Yue, Haoyu

  Climate change has negatively impacted human health, livelihoods, and key infrastructure in urban areas, especially within communities with economically and socially marginalized residents. To reduce exposure and vulnerability ...

• Traditional Ecological Practices Of Mount Merapi Towards Panarchy-Based Resilience Case Study: The Pelemsari Court-Village, Sleman, Yogyakarta 

  Depari, Catharina Dwi Astuti

  This book is built in an attempt to understand the capacity of humans to recover from and better adapt to unexpected changes, especially by those who choose to maintain proximity to the source of threats regardless of the ...

• “Dancing Until…?” A Community Strategy for Preserving the Black and Tan Club’s Cultural Heritage in Seattle’s Chinatown International-District 

  Tevlin, Liam

  This graduate thesis determines a post-positivist framing for preserving intersectional spaces and heritage in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District by engaging with the legacy, memory, and current preservation discourse ...

• Why Don’t We Plan for Climate Change? Reaffirming Planners’ Roles and Ethical Responsibilities in the Climate Crisis 

  Mu, Adela Han Chih

  This thesis answers the question, how are individual planners’ values and ethics reflected in their decisions about planning priorities in communities with severe climate risks? I conducted semi-structured, in-depth ...

• The Goat Next Door: An examination of the underlying community dynamics in agrihoods and the policy strategies that can assist in the expansion of this model 

  Stinnett, Antonia

  Agrihoods are single-family, multifamily, or mixed-use communities that integrate agriculture and food consumption or distribution into their development. The popularity of this model has continued to grow since the phrase ...

• Opportunities and Challenges of Light Rail Station Development for Women and/or Minority Owned Businesses in Seattle, Washington 

  Tan, Li Ling

  Women and/or minority owned businesses (WMBE) disproportionately face more challenges due to systemic inequities in society; however, this is not well-studied in transit-oriented development (TOD) environments. This study ...

• Pedestrian Safety Implications on the Lack of Sidewalks Along Aurora Ave N in Seattle, Washington 

  Popoca, Pedro

  The urban pedestrian experience is heavily based on how people feel, especially whenwalking along a busy street. The lack of sidewalks in north Seattle along Aurora Ave North has been a hot topic the city has been trying ...

• Becoming Green Places: Attachment to Public Green and Recreational Space Among Multi-Unit Dwellers in Ballard 

  Farrington, Claire

  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 ...

• Defining A Cultural Landscape: A Mixed-Modal Conversation on Whidbey Island 

  Pitts, Joshua

  The intent of this research is to define a cultural landscape on the southern end of Whidbey Island. Simply put, it is a strategy toward the development of a viable method to both preserve and conserve the south end of ...

• Community Engagement is Harming Cities: Disrupting Racial Planning for a Planning End of Shared Well-being 

  Johnson, Markus

  This thesis will contribute to planning theory and practice the idea that means-based planning theories and racial planning enable community engagement processes to have negative impacts on the city and the public’s ...

• Night Riders: Accessibility, Land Use, and Late-Night Transit 

  Margetic, Benjamin

  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, ...

• Sustainable Transportation for all: An Analysis of Non-Motorized Transport 

  Turner-Brady, Ryan

  As modern urban planners look towards sustainable solutions to combat the effects of climate change, one sector of particular interest has been transportation. Sustainable Transportation seeks to shift away from the ...

• Procedural Learning in Adults with and without Developmental Language Disorder: The Influence of Manual Motor Demands 

  Bartolo, Samantha Margaret

  The purpose of this research project was to determine differences in procedural learning in adults with and without developmental language disorder (DLD) when manual motor output is and is not required for a learning task. ...

• Racialized Ideology and Structure in Online Rental Advertisements: Using Natural Language Processing to Uncover Racialized Discourse 

  Kennedy, Ian

  This dissertation analyzes how the discursive representation of racist ideology in rental ads link up with the racialized social system in the US, a system I define, following Bonilla Silva (1997) as a “societ[y] in which ...

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