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Assessing the Technology Used by UAVs in Data Acquisition on Construction Sites
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, ... -
Transforming Borders and Crossing Frontiers : A Trans Border Light-Rail System for the City of El Paso and Juarez
The border-towns of El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Chihuahua are a place of deep trans-border cultures and home to 2.1 million people ("Demographic Data for El Paso"). Many of the residents of this bi-national metropolitan ... -
September 04, 1998: Entanglement and experimentation; or, Cultural fascism and Google Street View
Google Street View (GSV) presents the public realm as `fact', mapped and documented, and reconstituted online. In deleuzoguattarian terms, GSV is a unique assemblage, a bloc of space-time, with three distinct lines of force ... -
The Use of Patient Capital To Promote Real Estate Development in Walkable Communities
Abstract THE USE OF PATIENT CAPITAL TO PROMOTE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT IN WALKABLE COMMUNITIES By Francisco Traverso, 2014, 80 pages Chair of the Thesis Supervisory Committee: Jan Whittington As expressed by several authors, ... -
Neighborhood Networks and the Decision-Making Processes in a Distressed Social-Built Environment: A Case Study in Lake City (Seattle), Washington
The stresses caused by rapid urbanization in the Greater Seattle area have reignited the importance for neighborhood associations, citizens, health and human service providers, parks and recreation, and the local government ... -
Cultural Resilience in Asia: A Comparative Study of Heritage Conservation in Lijiang and Bagan
The practices of historic preservation have long been highly influenced by the UNESCO's international guidelines that classify the significance of local living heritage into tangible and intangible categories. This approach ... -
A Community-Based Grassroots Organization in the South Bronx as a Catalyst for Youth Organizing and Activism: Analyzing the Dynamics of a Transformative Youth Program
(2014-02-24)A transformative youth program is an approach to youth development that is focused on engaging youth in understanding and changing unjust conditions in their lives, thereby transforming themselves and the communities in ... -
An Evaluation Framework for the Integrated Design Process of Sustainable High-Performance Buildings
(2013-07-25)University of Washington <bold>ABSTRACT</bold> <bold>An Evaluation Framework for the Integrated Design Process of Sustainable High-Performance Buildings</bold> Rahman Azari Najafabadi <bold>Chair of the Supervisory ... -
Expressive Structure: The Life and Work of Matthew Nowicki
(2013-07-23)Matthew Nowicki (1910-1950) developed an approach to architecture that negotiated the architectural and engineering fields through his use of expressive structural forms. As more than an optimized materialist exploration, ...
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