Built environment

Re-presenting Antiquity as Distinction: Pre-Arab Pasts in Tunis’ Colonial, Postcolonial and Contemporary Built Environments

Coslett, Daniel Eppes

The rich legacy of Tunisia’s ancient history has played a vital role in the articulation of its identity and its architectural and urban development for centuries. Punctuated with relics of its diverse pasts, Tunisian built ...

Recall A Chinese Traditional Residential Community -- “Hutong”

Jiao, Ang

In the current modern Chinese society, especially in the city of Beijing, the traditional neighborhood development pattern of narrow alleys fronted by courtyard residences, referred to as “hutong” have lost their vitality, ...

Barriers to a Successful and Sustainable Dynamic Car-pooling System

He, Xinchang

With technology developed in recent years, dynamic car-pooling has started to become a phenomenon. Compared to traditional car-pooling, dynamic car-pooling apps allow users to car-pool on-demand with their smartphone, ...

Instance Cities: An Infrastructure of Hope for Berlin's Refugee Populations

Trigueiro, Stephen Nicholas

Ragged tears in walls and roofs caused by bombs and gunfire exist in the memories of refugees. They carry their dead every day, and those fortunate enough to not know the death of a loved one, bear a looming sense of terror ...

Developing a Quantitative Method for the Measurement of Public Life-Supportive Urban Form: Eight Test Sites and Applications in Seattle, WA and Copenhagen, Denmark

Crozier, Ian

Urban design theorists have developed a body of knowledge about the characteristics of places that support public life. More recently, researchers have developed quantitative methods for measuring certain aspects of urban ...

Assessing the Technology Used by UAVs in Data Acquisition on Construction Sites

Opincar, Eric

The question this thesis intends to answer is whether General Contractors (GCs) can indeed benefit from the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the construction process. With the technology of UAVs, cameras, ...

Becoming an Architect: Narratives of Architectural Education

Thompson, James

This dissertation examines the personal narratives of several aspiring architects to investigate the emergence of “occupational identities”—or how individuals navigate their education to construct a sense of themselves ...

A Feasibility Analysis of Parcel B-4-24 Development Project in Huaihua City, China

Lu, Xinyi

This study examines the potential feasibility of the proposed development for the Parcel B-4-24 in Huaihua City, Hunan Province, China. This study reviews and compares academic real estate development principles, previous ...

Immigrant's Sense of Belonging to Chinatown-International District, the Changing Neighborhood

Nakamura, Arisa

Chinatown-International District (CID), located at the south end of downtown Seattle, has been an immigrant receiving community for more than 150 years. The district has a history of social injustice and is currently facing ...

Privacy in the Smart City: Implications of Sensor Network Design, Law, and Policy for Locational Privacy

Gaughan, Melissa

Automated data collection technology has transformed the city. From sensors that measure traffic flow to scanners that help police officers locate stolen vehicles, the use of smart city sensor networks has become an integral ...

Under the Bridge: Utilizing Covered Liminal Spaces for Sanctioned Homeless Encampments in the City of Seattle

Baker, Max

The number of homeless sleeping outside in Seattle has increased significantly in the past few years, from 2,600 in 2012 to 4,500 in 2016. In response, the City has begun to spearhead the development of temporary sanctioned ...

The Relationship of Built Environment and Weather with Bike Share –Evidence from the Pronto Bike Share System in Seattle

Ding, Wei

The purpose of this research is to identify correlations with bike station ridership for Pronto, a bike share program in Seattle. The daily number of trips and station-level trips from October 13th, 2014 to October 12th, ...

The Coordinated City’s Mutation Machine: Capitalism, Sympathy, and Urbanization in Seattle’s South Lake Union Neighborhood

Harris, Gregory Keith

This dissertation intervenes in a debate that was published in the journal City in 2011 over how Deleuze and Guattari’s conceptual repertoire might profitably contribute to critical urban inquiry. However, rather than ...

VISUALIZATION, COMMUNICATION, AND COPRESENCE: USING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELS IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

Anderson, Ansel

In the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, work in distributed teams is becoming more common, adoption of building information modeling (BIM) is increasing, and effective time management is essential ...

Coming Home to the Land: Natural Farming as Therapeutic Landscape Experience in Chengdu Plain, China

Hu, Jiawen

This ethnographic-phenomenological research aims to explore the phenomenon of peri-urban farming, rural-urban integration, and community building that are crystallized in Chengdu Plain, China in recent years. Through the ...

Revealing Wastewater Ecologies: A Combined Sewer Overflow Strategy and Treatment Facility Design for Seattle's Georgetown Neighborhood

Lewis, Jordan C.

The 21st century infrastructure used to convey and treat sanitary waste and stormwater runoff is largely screened, hidden or buried from public view. In much of Seattle, as in many older cities, stormwater is conveyed in ...

Aligning Contractual, Technological, and Organizational Elements to Achieve Higher Performance buildings: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis Approach

Homayouni, Hoda

High Performance (HP) buildings are rapidly growing phenomena in Architecture Engineering and Construction industry, addressing many criteria affecting the buildings’ design and construction such as sustainability, ...