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23RD AND UNION: LAND VALUE PATTERNS IN AN UPZONED URBAN VILLAGE
Millions of dollars in additional land value is presumed to be created through upzoning urban villages across Seattle as part of Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda legislation. This study utilizes publicly available ... -
A Case Study of COVID-19 Impact on Public Transportation Ridership in Seattle — From Social Demographic Perspective
From the beginning of 2020, the coronavirus has caused varying degrees of impact on countries around the world. Many cities all over the globe have implemented shutdown policies to curb the spread of the virus. Economic ... -
A Comparative Study of Transit-Oriented Development Projects in China and the United States
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is an efficient planning tool in dealing with urban sprawl and promoting public transportation implemented across the world. This thesis studies how different TOD cases perform in five ... -
A Different Kind of Gentrification: Seattle and its Relationship with Industrial Land
Industry in Seattle often talks about how they are facing their own kind of gentrification. Rising property values, encroaching pressure for different land uses, and choking transportation all loom as reasons for industrial ... -
A False Promise of Green, Equitable Urban Growth? A Critical Review of the Literature and Implications for Seattle
Sustainability has permeated the study and practice of urban planning over the past 30 years. Yet situating social and environmental priorities on the same plane of planning interests as economic growth invariably generates ... -
A Feasibility Analysis of Parcel B-4-24 Development Project in Huaihua City, China
This study examines the potential feasibility of the proposed development for the Parcel B-4-24 in Huaihua City, Hunan Province, China. This study reviews and compares academic real estate development principles, previous ... -
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 ... -
A New Direction for Bellevue: From Cars to People and a Livable Community
University of Washington Abstract A New Direction for Bellevue: From Cars to People and a Livable Community Solomon Wagner Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Adjunct Professor Jeffrey Hou Urban Design and Planning Downtown ... -
A Post-Design Evaluation Of Park Design And Usage: Cal Anderson And Judkins Park (Seattle, WA)
Parks provide physical, mental, and environmental benefits, but still remain underutilized. To understand how designers’ intentions to consider community needs influence park usage, this post-design evaluation looks at the ... -
A Proposal for Using Geonarratives in Hazard-Adaptive Planning: Coastline Change in South Beach, Washington
Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest told stories to prepare future generations for environmental hazards. Facing a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, tsunami, and sea level rise, non-indigenous communities today ... -
A Review of the Residential Parking Management Program in Bellevue, WA
The purpose of this report is to review, evaluate, and make recommendations for Bellevue’s Residential Parking Management (RPM) program. To meet this objective, this report uses a literature review of Residential Permit ... -
A Roadmap to Better Agency Planning: A Case Study in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Great Plains Regional Office Division of Facilities Pilot Project
In Spring of 2016, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Great Plains Regional Office Division of Facilities (GPRO DoF) initiated a pilot project to develop a facilities master plan with an agency location. The intent was ... -
A Site Analysis for Programming Public Art on the University of Washington's Burke-Gilman Trail
Abstract A Site Analysis for Programming Public Art on the University of Washington’s Burke-Gilman Trail Ana Seivert Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Department Chair Christopher Campbell Department of Urban Design and ... -
A study of senior-friendly transportation services in Beijing
With the increasing population of the elders in China, many social challenges arise. To make travel easier for the elderly, new technology can be used to increase transportation services. This thesis will use successful ... -
ABCD + E: The Evolution of Asset Based Community Development to Address Equity and Displacement
Asset based community development (ABCD) is a theory of practice developed in response to economic, social, and political landscape shifts that emphasizes assets currently present in the community: the capacities of the ... -
Access to Opportunity and Locational Equity in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program: A Case of the Seattle Metropolitan Area
There is a severe shortage of affordable housing in the United States. The main funding source for the construction and preservation of affordable housing is through the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. ... -
Accessibility and Population Density in the Linpan Landscape: A Study of Urbanization in the Chengdu Plain, Sichuan, China
Rural area in China is rapidly changing and developing under the New Socialist Countryside policy. To take a careful study on village construction is very important for the future planning of China’s modernization. The ... -
Adaptive Reuse and Rehabilitation: Connecting Historic Preservation and Affordable Housing Developments in Seattle, Washington
Seattle has serious housing affordability issues that need to be addressed using multiple tools. In this work, I have identified the utilization of historic buildings as a potential tool for providing affordable housing. ... -
Alley | Imagination : Building community resilience into linear neighborhood spaces in Tacoma
As cities continue to implement transit oriented development policies, the recognition of corresponding risk of gentrification and displacement have led to an interest in making the process more equitable and resilient. ... -
An Equity Analysis of Bicycle Infrastructure Around Light Rail Stations in Seattle, WA
This thesis explores whether there is any relationship between an area’s equity variables – the proportion of a Census Block Group population that is a racial minority, below the federal poverty line, under the age of 18, ...