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Tactile MapTile: working towards inclusive cartography
This project presents an alternative approach to understanding the pedestrian experience. Challenging the existing primacy afforded to vision, this work takes a tactile approach. Physical abstractions are used as a means ... -
Terra Incognita: Speculative Landfill Futures
The amount of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) the world produces far exceeds our current infrastructural capacity. The things we throw away, while arguably benign individually, are dangerous once accumulated in large quantities. ... -
"The Land at Our Feet": Preserving Pioneer Square's Queer Landscape
From 1933-1974, Seattle’s Pioneer Square was home to a network of social and public spaces that formed an LGBTQ cultural landscape. That landscape is now lost. This thesis examines the question of how to make invisible ... -
The Power of Participation: Documenting and evaluating a community build project in Pongro Senchey, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
This thesis documents and evaluates a community build project with the residents of Pongro Senchey. The community is located in the urban periphery of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The central question of this thesis is, “How ... -
Therapeutic Streetscapes: A New Bell Street Designed to Accommodate Those on the Autism Spectrum
The rate of children and adults being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is rapidly rising throughout the United States. The CDC now estimates that 1 in 68 children are on the autism spectrum. At the same time ... -
Toward a Resilient Landscape: The Eco-Cultural Redevelopment in Rural Chengdu Plain
Rural issues have formed the main contradiction in Chinese development since China’s reform and opening up in 1978. In the last decade, catalyzed by the general background of industrialization, globalization and especially ... -
Transfixed: Leveraging Local Ecology to Create a Thick Transportation Corridor in Minneapolis, Minnesota
As American cities begin to see the effects of climate change, many are turning to low-carbon transportation as one way to mitigate these challenges. This thesis seeks to explore how transportation can be a catalyst for ... -
Transmission Lines in Wildland Landscapes: Gauging Visual Impact Among Casual Observers
(2012-09-13)Landscape assessments and visual impact analyses conducted for federal agency policy and planning purposes are performed by visual resource experts. Little input is gathered from members of the public, in whose interest ... -
Understanding the Bicycling Behavior of a Student Population: A Case Study in the University of Washington's College of Built Environments
Bicycling behavior has proven to be related to a variety of factors, including the physical environment, social environment, trip characteristics, and individual attributes. The use of bikes therefore varies greatly across ... -
Unsettling Prairies: A Critical Reimagining of Fire Management in Cities
Climate projections for 2050 expect Puget Sound regional temperatures will likely increase by 2.9-5.4 degrees Fahrenheit, temperatures more suitable for a mosaic of fire-resilient landscapes such as prairies, grasslands ... -
|un|settling salt marshes: speculations on legible vulnerability in a vanishing place
Hegemonic urban landscapes are positioned as apolitical places of stability, wealth and culture for those who inhabit and embody them, obscuring the socio-spatial and ecological processes that have coalesced to give rise ... -
URBAN ACUPUNCTURE Transforming Vacant Urban Spaces for Community Gathering Suwon, South Korea
This design thesis applies the concept of "Urban Acupuncture" through the lens of Landscape Architecture within a UNESCO-designated historical community in Suwon, Korea. Due to the historical fabric of the area, development ... -
Urban Engawa / Veranda -Making Interactive Spaces for Tokyo Urbanites in the Fuzzy Spaces between Inside and Outside-
This design thesis explores urban landscape design for future Tokyo, Japan to encourage interaction among Tokyo urbanites and nature through “fuzzy space” between inside and outside. For this purpose, focusing on how culture ... -
Urban Experience Design: A Human-Centered Method Applied to University District in Seattle
This thesis explores how the Human-Centered Method can be applied in urban experience design. By utilizing a Double Diamond Model approach and interdisciplinary theories, this design thesis examines the application of the ... -
Urban Living Room: Inclusive U District Station Plaza Design
This thesis explores the social condition of homelessness in Seattle’s city fabric, and the design project is to provide a healthier built environment for an inclusive group of users in U District Station plaza to encourage ... -
Vertical Landscapes: Learning From a Rock Climbing Perspective
Within the field of landscape architecture, verticality is predominantly defined as a design tool. The variety of applications for vertical elements within design, and the spatial role they can play is well documented. ... -
Voices of Impact: Assessing the Felt Impacts of Open-Pit Gold and Copper Mining in British Columbia
Salmon bearing river systems connect communities of Southeast Alaska and Northern British Columbia supporting rich ecological diversity throughout the region. The fishing economies, cultural traditions, and identities of ... -
West Lake Union Traverse
(2013-07-25)I am fascinated by one's ability to drift through a space. In an unobstructed environment, water and people flow; people might drift and wander while water takes a more direct route, but both generally follow paths of least ...