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A Bouquet of Benefits: Floriculture and Ecosystem Gifts in an Urban Industrial Zone
The floral industry is at once global and personal. Humans have shaped the landscape to create the simple gift of a cut-flower for thousands of years. Although regional floriculture in the western U.S. is robust, the US. ... -
A river to forgive the town: resilience and reclamation of public space in South Park through temporary activation and community empowerment
Every person in Seattle has the right to equitable access of quality public green space and a healthy living environment. As a designer I have the ability and the duty to help implement this imperative. The South Park ... -
A Stewardship Plan for a Pollinator Meadow Garden at Bloedel Reserve
Complex ecological design projects that address issues of biodiversity loss are bridging disciplines of landscape architecture, restoration ecology, and environmental planning. Through these combined efforts, landscape ... -
Acequias: Building Social Resilience in Española, New Mexico
Facing decades of debilitating social issues and a changing climate, this design research explores the historical importance of acequia systems in Española, New Mexico, to help re-imagine the future of the city. Española ... -
Acknowledging Landscape: Walking Paths Towards Indigenous Urbanism
In North America, all cities have beneath them Indigenous land and are set within Indigenous landscapes, and yet this connection is rarely explicit in the physical environment. Much of urban development has been constructed ... -
Amphibious City: Sustainable Adaptations to Sea Level Rise in Seattle’s Interbay Area
Sea-level rise poses major challenges to coastal land uses, and therefore to urban design processes. The project is intended to create an innovative, sustainable and workable urban design plan. In the Seattle Interbay Area, ... -
An Exploration of “Weaving Threads” as a Model for Resilience in Bay Area Marginal Suburban Communities
From a broad and comprehensive perspective, the thesis discusses social-ecological resilience and guides application of resilience in Bay Area marginal suburban communities. First of all, the thesis describes the challenges ... -
Back to the Root: Designing a Culturally Responsive Open Space for Seattle's Chinatown-International District
(2014-02-24)ABSTRACT The City of Seattle was seeking for a design team for the Hing Hay Expansion in early 2013. At that period of time, the community of the Chinatown-International District was busy gathering future participation ... -
Ballard Bridge Park: Preserving Place for Transient Populations in Urban Spaces
Public spaces are meant to serve and accommodate the needs of a diverse populace. These spaces are created in order to improve overall quality of life through access to open space in increasingly dense urban communities. ... -
Between City and Sea : Multi-trophic Mariculture as Urban Intertidal Catalyst
Urban waterfronts can do more than retain the land in spite of the sea. This design project explores and applies multi-trophic mariculture as a means towards enlivening and broadening the disappearing gradient between city ... -
Between the City and the Sea: Experiencing Identity in the Changing Landscape of Stanwood, Washington
This thesis considers the challenges rural communities face to their traditional ways of life and identities, investigates methods other, global communities use to react to these changes, and finally, offers a possible ... -
Building a Community Rooftop Network: Design Prototypes for Taipei
(2014-04-30)This thesis is an exploration of residential area rooftop space in Taipei, Taiwan. The rooftops now are mostly occupied by private owners or left vacant. There are possibilities to connect the rooftops for people live in ... -
Claim, Reclaim, Unclaim: Foregrounding Place-Based Solidarities in the Eco-Cultural Revitalization of a Post-Mining Landscape on the Klamath River
Post-mining landscapes (PMLs) such as Tishánik, located on the Mid-Klamath River in Karuk Aboriginal Territory, are sites of historic and ongoing settler colonial violence. While PMLs are emblematic of extractive relationships ... -
Coastal Forests as a Tsunami Mitigation Measure in Pacific Northwest Coastal Communities
The Pacific Northwest coast has tsunami risk in both non-local and local forms. Most significant is the tsunami risk that comes from the Cascadia subduction zone, and scientists predict that more major seismic events along ... -
Connecting the Drops: managing the effects of climate change on water in Seattle
As climate change affects our water supplies, we must plan for a range of scenarios and delve into the dichotomous condition of a rainy city amid limited potable water supplies. This thesis explores how to reduce potable ... -
Contemplating Sanctuary: Design strategies for contemporary contemplation spaces with cleansing water as a wetland treatment park and urban sanctuary
This design thesis explores contemplative design strategies that engender spiritual communion with place. Sensuous experience of cleansing and temporal water creates a restorative environment. Synthesizing design principles ... -
Creativity, Landscape Design Process, Maury Island Gravel Mine
(2012-09-13)In the summer of 2007, I read a popular top-selling book by a Taiwanese playwright and theater director, Stan Lai (Lai Sheng- Chuan). This book, Lai Sheng-Chuan's Creativity, widened my vision and ignited my desire to ... -
The Cross-Valley Greenway: Making Way for People and Wildlife Across the Duwamish Valley
Land development patterns have fragmented our landscapes, and this has resulted in the loss of connectivity between habitats for both wildlife and humans. Nowhere is this seen more than in the Duwamish Valley where large ... -
Cultivating Contamination: Floating In-Situ
Despite its Superfund designation by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of the nation’s most toxic hazardous waste sites in 2001, Seattle’s Lower Duwamish Waterway (LDW) remains polluted, with a legacy of ... -
Cultivating the Campus: Productive Strategies for the University of Washington's Educational Landscape
With the urban population forecasted to continue expanding, simultaneously distancing individuals from the environmental impacts of their consumption, two fundamental priorities are becoming clear: how will we sustainably ...