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Native Cultural Design: Exploring Design to Address Historical Trauma and Assist with Village Relocation on the Quinault Indian Nation in Taholah, WA
Native American communities are in need of improvement, which I attribute to historical trauma from the deplorable acts that Native American communities have gone through. Historical trauma creates difficulties for the ... -
Negotiating Ballard's Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail: How Bicycle Infrastructure Can Integrate A Sustainable Design Solution
As cities expand and evolve, urban infrastructure systems must become multifunctional, complementing one another in efficient ways that create synergies and contribute to the resilience and livability of our built environment. ... -
NOURISHING NEIGHBORHOODS CULTIVATING LOCAL FOOD CONNECTIONS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Have you ever walked by fruit trees in your neighborhood and wondered what kind of fruit they were producing and whether you could pick it? By tracing the history of food in Seattle, from the native plants that have long ... -
Oasis of Resilience, Healing and empowering Syrian Children in Za'atari refugee camp
This thesis, Oasis of Resilience, presents the challenges Syrian refugee children faced during the years of war in Syria and continue to face in Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan. Recasting the physical environment as an ... -
On the Edge
Although edges are often dismissed as a simple boundary or fringe aspect of design, their true nature is much more complex and richer. Their power lies in the fact they are neither separators or unifiers, describers of ... -
Our Landscape, Ourselves: Integrating Process and Traditional food Principles for Wellbeing + Resilience in the Swinomish Tribal Community
As the first Native American tribe to create a Climate Adaptation Plan in 2010, the Swinomish Tribal Community in Western Washington have identified their vulnerabilities both in the present day with respect to mental and ... -
Overlooked: Balancing Habitat and Access in Seattle's Shoreline Street Ends
With rapidly increasing density, increasingly wealthier residents that prefer waterfront real estate and state laws allowing privatization of the shorelines, rights of way and water access are two critically important ... -
Perception + Precision: An Exploratory Process Towards Generative Site Analysis
Site analysis plays a vital role in the relationship between landscape architects and the places they work to understand and enhance. As an arm of the design process, site analysis finds its place in every project. ... -
Pier Pressure: Addressing Ecological Opportunities of Nearshore Infrastructure in Lake Washington’s Union Bay
Along much of Seattle’s freshwater shorelines, seemingly isolated problems like erosion and shading are compounded and repeated by docks, piers, and houseboats. This results in a much bigger ecological problem: the erasure ... -
Planning for Pest Readiness: Building Climate Resilience in Seattle’s Urban Forest with a Community-centric Approach
The urban forest not only plays an important role in providing ecological benefits, but it is also positively associated with public health, especially for communities of color and low-income people who already suffer from ... -
Planning for Self-Organized Homeless Camps: Policy, Community Relations, and Locational Process
(2014-04-30)This thesis explores the policies, community relations, and locational process of self-organized homeless camps, in particular Camp Unity Eastside during their stay in Kirkland. The first chapter covers the importance of ... -
Playing on the Spectrum: Exploring How to Create Playgrounds More Accessible for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Playground design in the United States fails to address the needs of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). As an exploratory study of the importance of play and the obstacles playground environments create for ... -
Prison Landscapes: A landscape prototype in a transitional facility for the reintegration of prerelease inmates in Thailand
This thesis investigates landscapes in the minimum-security correctional setting and proposes a landscape prototype in a transitional type of prison in Thailand. Through public collaboration and rehabilitative programs, ... -
Providing Connections: A Wetland Boardwalk
(2013-02-25)As part of their Northwest Stream Center located in Snohomish County, Washington, Adopt-a-Stream Foundation plans to add a boardwalk route through the wetland site adjacent to their building to provide an outdoor learning ... -
PUBLIC SPACE BETA: Gamification For An Engaged Participatory Landscape Design
This thesis will explore the potential scenario for the future of participatory landscape design (PLD) through the employment of an interactive approach, specifically gamification. This may provide an alternative perspective ... -
Radical Cannabis Ecologies: A Regenerative Approach to Cannabis Farms in The Emerald Triangle
Over the past 150 years, the forest ecosystems of California’s Northwestern Coast have been dramatically altered, first through a century of intensive logging followed by 50 years of illicit cannabis cultivation. Combined, ... -
Rainforest, Airport, Park: Navigating extractive entanglements through the synthesis of infrastructure and ecological function in Iquitos, Peru
Urban landscapes have become characterized by static, impervious systems, disconnected from the surrounding ecology. In Iquitos, a city of half-a-million in the Peruvian Amazon, attempts to replace natural systems with ... -
Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands: Strengthening Diversity for Community Resilience
This thesis examines the relationship of cultural diversity and public space design in the context of an 8.25-acre site in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Though existing research directly on this ... -
Recapturing a Cultural Landscape: The Past and Future Character of the Haller Gardens
ABSTRACT Recapturing a Cultural Landscape: The Past and Future Character of the Haller Gardens Doris J. McMahon Cultural landscapes are vital community repositories because they provide opportunities for learning about ... -
RECLAIMING THE LAND: EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF UNDERUTILIZED SPACES IN URBAN REGENERATION
Development patterns in cities across the world in the 20th century have shown a propensity towards preparing cities more efficiently for automobiles. This has led to the enormous sprawl-like growth in urban areas, ...