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The Garden Unit: A Case Study Exploring Therapeutic Garden Design for Elderly with Dementia at the Jewish Home of San Francisco
(2013-07-25)This design thesis examines the significance of therapeutic gardens in long-term geriatric care facilities and advocates for thoughtfully designed "out-of-doors" spaces that support the highest quality of life for elderly ... -
GIS-Based Suitability Analysis and Planning of Green Infrastructure: A Case of the PPCOD, Capitol Hill
The combination of the population growth in cities and climate change at a global scale continually requires developed approaches and strategies for our built environments. In the city of Seattle, which is one of the fastest ... -
Give Me A Clean Death | Rethinking Our Modern Death-Care System
Thousands of tons of carcinogenic chemicals are interred in the ground every year by the modern death care industry in the United States alone. We, as a modern society, have also collectively chosen to relegate the spaces ... -
Grow, Thrive, Be: Building Healthy Communities and Preserving Culture through Designing Children's Outdoor Play
(2014-04-30)New Zealand is a unique island nation with a history of European colonization overlaying earlier Polynesian settlement which results in unprecedented cultural challenges and opportunities. Confronting issues of urbanization, ... -
Growing Climate Resilience: An Urban Forest Design Framework
Climate change promises many negative impacts on human physical, mental and community health in the Puget Sound region. Urban forests supply multiple cultural and ecological services, and because of these multiple benefits, ... -
Growing Washington's Prison Landscapes: A Design & Construction Guidebook
To date, no formal framework exists for utilizing a prison landscape as a means to reduce recidivism, improve facility safety, enhance operational and ecological functionality, and foster agency and empowerment in the lives ... -
HARVESTING STORMWATER: TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND DRYLANDS STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE IN TUNIS, TUNISIA
In Tunisia, the presence of water wavers between poles of scarcity and catastrophic abundance, its drought-prone climate punctuated by increasingly erratic bursts of precipitation. Flash floods, now frequent in the western ... -
Hasn't It Always Been Like This?
This project traces a place-story of the Lake Union Dry Docks, a working industrial site wedged between growing residential Eastlake and the rapidly developing South Lake Union urban hub. Industrial sites are increasingly ... -
Hidden in Plain Sight: Proactive Designer Instigated Projects
This research is divided into two acts. The first act defines the hidden potential within the built environment that offers the chance for responding to the negative consequences of conventional development practices. ... -
Historic landscape preservation : what are the most innovative cities doing to protect their historic landscapes
(1991)In 1976, the second annual national "Back to the City" conference was held in St. Paul, Minnesota. The conference offered a forum for the presentation of projects that demonstrated what people had done to revitalize their ... -
How Could Participatory Design be Catalyzed by Social Media? Improving Co-Design Efficiency and Effectiveness
With the development of the Internet and information technology, online participation is becoming an important gateway for civic engagement. Social media, with the ability to mobilize people without minimal time and spatial ... -
Hydraulic Modeling to Quantify Benefits of Floodplain Restoration
In rural areas, flood management is often achieved with large civic projects such as dams and levees. In contrast, the restoration of floodplain processes is done as a remediation or seen as a separate end. Restoring ... -
Immersive Realities: An Expansion Pack for Landscape Architecture
While studying abroad in Berlin, I had the experience of exploring a city the way I would explore a video game. I allowed myself to be led by curiosity, thoroughly investigated my surroundings, and was frequently delighted ... -
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 ... -
In the Absence of Water: An Eco-Distopian Scenario in Mexico City
Mexico City’s water narratives are unique to its place, yet simultaneously speak to the ubiquity of climate challenges in the Anthropocene. This design research explores the reciprocal relationships between water and the ... -
Infrastructural Landscape: Strategies for Post-Industrial Reuse
This thesis examines the regional challenges facing the Great Lakes and proposes a series of simultaneous multiscalar strategies to address them. The proposal activates the potential, in the greater number and area, of ... -
Infrastructural Landscape: Strategies for Post-Industrial Reuse
This thesis examines the regional challenges facing the Great Lakes and proposes a series of simultaneous multiscalar strategies to address them. The proposal activates the potential, in the greater number and area, of ... -
Infrastructural Landscape: Strategies for Post-Industrial Reuse
This thesis examines the regional challenges facing the Great Lakes and proposes a series of simultaneous multiscalar strategies to address them. The proposal activates the potential, in the greater number and area, of ... -
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 ... -
Investigating Grassroots Strategies for Sea Level Rise Adaptation: A Review of Island County’s Sea Level Rise Strategy Study
In 2019 Island County enlisted Washington Sea Grant and UW Urban Planning students to identify and recommend best management practices for sea-level rise adaptation measures for property owners and neighborhoods. This ...