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E-Governance in Urban Planning: Use and management of websites in Puget Sound planning offices
E-governance encompasses the use of information and communication technologies in government institutions to promote e-government, e-participation. The framework of e-governance in American planning offices is not well ... -
ECONOMIC APPROACHES TO MANAGING STORMWATER RUNOFF IN THE SEATTLE AREA
This thesis evaluates the use of best management practices (BMPs) as cost effective tools for reducing the incidence of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) in the Ballard CSO basin. I estimated the cost of detaining stormwater ... -
Ecosystem Service Values in Benefit-Cost Analysis of Flood Mitigation Projects
(2012-09-13)In this thesis, I have presented ways to expand the stream of benefits and costs towards improving intergenerational equity of projects that impact floodplain ecosystems. I propose the use of ecosystem service values for ... -
Ecosystem Services and Climate Change Planning: An Awareness-, Analysis-, Action-based Assessment of Local Planning Efforts
Climate adaptation planning is a developing field both in the United States and globally. Ecosystem-based adaptation, an emerging concept that examines the role of ecosystem services in reducing human vulnerability to ... -
Effects of Built Environments on Travel Behavior and Emissions: A Reexamination by Addressing Methodological Issues
(2013-07-25)Urban transportation researchers have been studying the relationship between land use policy and travel behavior for several decades due to the topic's great importance in public policy-making. Because of the improvements ... -
Efficacy of Military and Community Compatibility Planning in the Puget Sound Region
Washington State’s Puget Sound region is home to three major military installations that work in partnership with neighboring communities to develop land use plans, policies, and regulations supportive of the U.S. Department ... -
An Empirical Study of Urban/Suburban Residential Location Choice in the Seattle Metropolitan Area
(2012-09-13)The factors that affect the urban/suburban residential location choice has long been of interest to the field of urban planning as it explains the distribution of both population and income in metropolitan areas. This study ... -
Equitable Improvements to Public Space in the Right-of-Way
As one of the fastest growing cities in the nation, Seattle is quickly losing its potential public open space. The need to create more public space with its increasing population will only intensify. The benefits of green ... -
Equity & The Public Meeting: Are Public Meetings Engaging the Community?
The Yesler Terrace Neighborhood was the oldest public housing site in Seattle. Because of its proximity to the urban core and the need for more density the area is set to be demolished and redeveloped in phases. Two blocks ... -
An equity analysis of the 2014 Seattle Bicycle Master Plan: initial findings and recommended methods improvements
This report conducts an equity analysis on the 2014 Seattle Bicycle Master Plan for the purpose of assessing the level of access to bicycle facilities for bicycle dependent populations. Initial findings reveal higher overall ... -
Equity Impacts of Central Link Light Rail in Seattle, WA
Central Link Light Rail has unexplored equity impacts to nearby communities. Large-scale infrastructure projects, often with equitable intentions, end up displacing vulnerable communities or aiding in their detriment—the ... -
Equity in the Built Environment: An Urban Design Analysis of Transit-Oriented Development in Downtown Redmond, WA.
Metropolitan areas in North America are growing as a result of favorable economic conditions, but this unexpected boom has exacerbated issues like traffic congestion, air pollution, land consumption, and housing affordability. ... -
Equity of the Pierce Transit System: A Geospatial Comparison of Accessibility for Key Population Groups
Transit systems provide critical access to both vital and social resources to many within a community, but particularly for those without other means of transportation. Lack of transportation options, or transportation ... -
Established and emerging group build (Baugruppen) development processes
Regulatory reforms aimed at increasing the housing supply also create new opportunities for households to jointly develop housing for their own use. To achieve goals in sustainable urban development, planners may leverage ... -
Estimating Carbon Sequestration of Green Roofs and Elevated Green Courtyards in Seattle
As carbon dioxide (CO2) becomes increasingly concentrated in the atmosphere and rapidly accelerates climate change, efforts should be put forth not just to reduce CO2 emissions but to also remove CO2 from the atmosphere. ... -
EV Friendly Cities: A Comparison of Policy and Infrastructure in Sixteen Global Cities
Electric vehicles, one of the emerging modes of transportation, are at the forefront of sustainable mobility. In the past years, there has been a rapid rise in EVs, both as private and public transportation modes. Private ... -
Evaluating Public Participation Techniques: Improving the Planner's Tool Box
(2013-07-25)This thesis attempts to examine the variety of public participation techniques used in the creation of neighborhood plans and suggests a multi-criteria analysis to compare techniques against a set of criteria. To pair down ... -
Evaluating the Impacts of Discount Function and Rate Selection on the Net Present Valuation of Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Services: An Exploratory Meta-Analysis
This thesis explores the impact of discount function and rate selection on the net present valuation of coastal wetland ecosystem services in the context of benefit cost analysis. Using valuation estimates from peer-reviewed ... -
An Evaluation of Land Cover Change from 2006 to 2009 and the Effectiveness of Certain Conservation Land Use Tools Within Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed (WRIA 8) Riparian Buffers
(2013-04-17)Riparian areas are fundamental to the ecological health for salmon recovery in the Pacific Northwest. Efforts to protect riparian areas for salmon recovery have typically focused on public land acquisitions and habitat ... -
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 ...