• Neighborhood Networks and the Decision-Making Processes in a Distressed Social-Built Environment: A Case Study in Lake City (Seattle), Washington 

  TROUT, Amber

  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 

  Yang, Chiaoyen

  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 ...
• Transforming Borders and Crossing Frontiers : A Trans Border Light-Rail System for the City of El Paso and Juarez 

  RAMIREZ, ARNULFO

  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 

  Gilge, Cheryl Renee

  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 

  Traverso, Francisco

  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, ...
• 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 

  Poncelet, Julie Anne Paul (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 

  Azari Najafabadi, Rahman (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 

  Sprague, Tyler (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, ...
• CARESCAPES: TRANSNATIONAL URBAN REDEVELOPMENT OF THE POST-COLONIAL HONG KONG 

  Huang, Shu-Mei (2013-04-17)

  Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by the government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades, this research pays attention to how biased normalization of care and dependency contributes to a ...
• Evaluating Human Visual Preference and Performance in an Office Environment Using Luminance-based Metrics 

  Van Den Wymelenberg, Kevin G. (2013-02-25)

  There are not adequate human factors research studies available that examine luminance-based measures as they relate to human visual preference and acceptance in spaces with daylight. The objective of this research is to ...
• A Fragmented Memory Project: Archaeological and Ethnographic Museums in Turkey, 1960-1980 

  Sade Mete, Fatma Ozge (2013-02-25)

  This dissertation examines the long neglected archaeological and ethnographic museums in the provinces of Turkey that were built between early 1960s and early 1980s, with respect to the troublesome relationship of the ...
• Remaking Chinese Planning as a Profession: Growing Demand and Challenges 

  Huang, Kuang-ting (2012-09-13)

  Since China initiated its pro-market reform in 1978, the way Chinese cities are governed has undergone a profound change. Central to such change is the fundamental revival of urban land as economic assets, because of which ...
• The dynamics and resilience of river cities as coupled human-natural systems 

  Liao, Kuei-Hsien (2012-09-13)

  Around the world many river cities are challenged simultaneously by heightened flood risk and degraded river health. The prevailing approach to flood hazard mitigation--flood control, has been criticized to be ineffective ...
• Considerations of Lighting Influencing Design: A Community Center For Fremont 

  Cheney, Kathleen C. (2008)

  In order to conceptualize an architectural design, one must consider lighting and perception. Humans are visual creatures; the main perception of an architectural space is heavily influenced by light. Light defines ...
• Building watershed narratives: two case studies of urban streams in Seattle, Washington 

  Yocom, Kenneth (Kenneth Peter), 1973- (2007)

  My research responds to calls from both practitioners and theorists to broaden the approaches for identifying and addressing the problems inherent within urban streams and rivers by utilizing a narrative-based, case study ...

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