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Contemporary Bamboo Housing in South America: Challenges & Opportunities for Building in the Informal Sector
The greatest challenge of our time is to provide resilient, affordable housing solutions to rapidly increasing urban populations across the world. In Low and Middle Income Countries, local and national governments cannot ... -
Identifying Valued Community Resilience Indicators and Dimensions for King County
King County, Washington is challenged by a variety of potential shocks, such as earthquakes, and stresses, such as rising income inequality and climate change. It is therefore essential to strengthen community resilience. ... -
Integrating a Contemporary Therapeutic Landscape into a Historic Campus: Design for the Dr. Martin Horvat Hospital, Rovinj, Croatia
This thesis explores questions of the modern restorative healthcare environment and the value of cultural landscape preservation by developing a planning strategy and landscape design for the Dr. Martin Horvat Hospital in ... -
Re-presenting Antiquity as Distinction: Pre-Arab Pasts in Tunis’ Colonial, Postcolonial and Contemporary Built Environments
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”
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
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
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
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
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ...
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