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Occupying Bangkok-Mobile Vendors and Democratic Attitudes
This thesis analyzes the status, activity, and relations of mobile vendors in the abstract and reproduced spaces of Bangkok. The flotation of people from Northeast Thailand is located within Bangkok and the process of the development of modern Thai political economy, a process that has been heavily influenced by neo-liberalism. ...
The Spaces In-Between: Learning From Kampala's Slums
Informal settlements, also known as slums, favelas and barrios have become ubiquitous in developing countries’ cities. These areas are usually described as places of poverty, squalor, and uncleanliness. To many, they are places that need to be xed, improved or removed from the city. The impoverished, di cult life of slum ...
The Fluid City | The Integration of Architecture and Urban Design to Reconnect the City of Erie to its Post-Industrial Waterfront and the Temporal Environment Beyond
As a physical edge, urban waterfronts have historically provided both margins and thresholds between cities and nature. As the foundation of transportation, trade, and industry, America’s ports led to growth and prosperity along its waterways. However, as further settlement and industrialization spread through the United ...
Urban Planning and Housing: An Assessment of Fair Housing Laws Providing Protective Status to Veterans
University of Washington Abstract Urban Planning and Housing: An Assessment of Fair Housing Laws Providing Protective Status to Veterans Lisa Carolyn Davidson Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Research Professor Emeritus Fredrick Wagner Department of Urban Design and Planning This thesis examines the housing element of urban ...
(Sub)Urban Confluence
This thesis hypothesizes that by transforming large-scale underperforming commercial sites, scattered throughout suburbia into community hubs, they would be well positioned to serve as conveyors of essential social and economic stimulus for the suburbanites of the 21st century. Suburban populations are changing but their ...
Planners and the Work of Renewal in Addis Ababa: Developmental State, Urbanizing Society
This dissertation explores the political geographies of urban restructuring through a case study of planners advancing urban renewal programs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I build an account of the work lives of these public servants on the basis of data from interviews, participant observation, and unobtrusive study of planning ...
An Investigation of Evaluation Methods of Weighted-Point Landscaping Policy - in Seattle and Malmö
Urban vegetation plays an important role in influencing ecological function beyond the individual plant scale. City policies set required quantity and quality parameters for urban vegetation that determine the environmental and societal outcomes and ultimately affect urban residents’ wellbeing. The way urban vegetation ...
Flyshare 2020
Transportation termini link people to social wellbeing, economic prosperity and the natural and built environments of the world. Altering and managing trends in transportation presents a major challenge in contemporary cities and will require the collaboration of stakeholders at local, regional, national and international ...
Invisible Logic of Space Forming - Rethinking the Urban Growth in Yueyang, China
Not only visitors but also local residents of China can be visually aware of the country’s spectacular and accelerating urbanization in the last three decades. In the era of globalization, China’s urban landscape has been dramatically changed by massive deconstructions of existing building fabric, as well as large scale new ...
Reflections on Recovery: Analyzing disaster recovery frameworks for the cities of Seattle and Wellington through a lens of reflexive sociology
University of Washington Abstract Reflections on Recovery: Analyzing disaster recovery frameworks for the cities of Seattle and Wellington through a lens of reflexive sociology Samuel Ripley Chair of the Supervisory committee: Dr. Jan Whittington Department of Urban Design and Planning Recovering from catastrophic disasters ...