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A Just Transition Framework for Resilience - Evaluating Strategies for Seattle’s Duwamish Valley Resilience District
This thesis develops a framework for evaluating policies that advance climate justice within the emerging Duwamish Valley Resilience District in Seattle, Washington. The Duwamish Valley is a legacy industrial area and ... -
What’s Going on in Rat City? An Analysis of Queer Space in White Center
This paper assesses ongoing change occurring in White Center, an unincorporated community directly south of Seattle. Beginning in the 1970s, several waves of immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Central America came to ... -
Determinants of Housing Underproduction in Washington State Counties: Analyzing the Impact of Policy, Demographic, and Economic Factors
The urbanized regions of the State of Washington are widely known for being difficult cities to find an affordable place to live. The purpose of this thesis is to identify factors contributing to housing underproduction ... -
An Initial Transportation and Mobility Needs Assessment for the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe
The Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe is facing extremely rapid erosion, rising sea levels, and a plausible earthquake and tsunami inundation that together threaten their community and future. In response, the Shoalwater Bay ... -
Spatial Assessments of Seattle Housing Authority’s Senior Housing and their Proximity to Parks, Public Transit Stations, and Medical Facilities
The built environment has the capacity to enhance or diminish quality of life. This capacity provides the reason and motivation to provide an environment that is able to facilitate the needs of individuals. To accomplish ... -
Planning with Fire: Exploring the Barriers & Opportunities Surrounding Wildfire Fuel Reduction at the Wildland Urban Interface
With unprecedented climate change and rapidly shifting wildfire regimes heightening wildfire risk across the Pacific Northwest, our research explores fuel reduction as a holistic wildfire mitigation strategy. Using the ... -
Future street design and urban planning considering Autonomous Vehicles
Historically, streets were primarily designed for people's public lives, serving as hubs for cultural exchange and social activities. However, the importance of public lives has been marginalized since the advent of cars, ... -
Influence of Street Trees on Frequency of Vehicle Collisions in Seattle
This thesis explores the correlation between street trees and motor vehicle crash frequency in Seattle, WA, focusing on the implications for livability and safety. While previous literature initially suggests a potential ... -
Evaluation of new vehicle technologies and new mobility services as sustainable urban transportation solutions
Focusing on shared micromobility and the application of vehicle automation to shared mobility, this dissertation develops new approaches to evaluating sustainability impacts of new vehicle technologies and new mobility ... -
Building Justice: Imagining a Political Agenda
Reform of US incarceration facilities is a moral imperative that requires the integration of aspects of community planning, architecture, and legal and political agendas. The complexity of the challenge has only increased ... -
Urban Landscape Complexity as a Driver of Urban Evolution in White Clover (Trifolium repens)
Cities are influencing evolution on contemporary timescales, but the mechanisms driving evolutionary change are not well understood. Previous studies on urban eco-evolutionary dynamics generally assume that urban structures ... -
Augmented Reality Games as an Urban Planning Tool: An Exploration of Pokémon GO
When the mobile location-based augmented reality game Pokémon GO came out in July 2016, it exploded in popularity as hundreds of millions of players got out walking, explored their communities, and gathered in public ... -
Climate Equity: Urban Temperature, Landscape Heterogeneity, and Mitigation Strategies
The rise in global average temperature due to climate change causes uneven heat burdens in urban areas that are systematically associated with the built environment and socioeconomic status. These burdens disproportionately ... -
Missing Middle Housing: Key Considerations for Seattle's Implementation of House Bill 1110
Seattle is experiencing a housing crisis. The city needs to build a substantial amount of housing in order to adequately meet the current and future housing needs of its residents. However, supply has not kept pace with ... -
Breaking the Automobile Addiction: A Vision for Transit-Oriented Development in Seattle
Cities have recognized the need to shift to a more walkable, transit-friendly urban form to reduce reliance on the personal automobile. Since the concept of transit-oriented development (TOD) was coined by Peter Calthorpe ... -
Decisions in Motion: Exploring the Impact of Plan Implementation and Decision-Making on Cyclist and Pedestrian Safety
The increasing emphasis on sustainable and active transportation modes, such as cycling and walking, highlights the need to prioritize the safety of cyclists and pedestrians in urban environments. This thesis investigates ... -
Mainstreaming Decarbonization in the Capital Improvement Plan: Informing Seattle's Effort to Align Emissions Reduction Goals and Public Infrastructure Investments
This thesis explores the potential of Seattle’s Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) to act as a roadmap for local decarbonization investments; mainly following the foundation set by Jan Whittington and Catherine Lynch on the ... -
Lawn and Order: Evaluating the relationship between household income and drought restriction compliance in California
In 2021, the state of California declared a state of emergency for a record-breaking drought and requested all residents to reduce consumption by 15%. The state introduced restrictions on outdoor watering and increased ... -
Urban Governance and Street Vendors in China: A Critical Review of Literature and Case Study in Changsha
Street vendors in urban public spaces are often seen as a negative element in the Chinese context because they may cause congestion on the sidewalk. Furthermore, in official discourse, the unregulated and disorderly image ... -
Planning with Fire: Exploring the Barriers & Opportunities Surrounding Wildfire Fuel Reduction at the Wildland Urban Interface
With unprecedented climate change and rapidly shifting wildfire regimes heightening wildfire risk across the Pacific Northwest, our research explores fuel reduction as a holistic wildfire mitigation strategy. Using the ...