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Identifying Valued Community Resilience Indicators and Dimensions for King County
King County, Washington is challenged by a variety of potential shocks, such as earthquakes, and stresses, such as rising income inequality and climate change. It is therefore essential to strengthen community resilience. ... -
The Impact of New Urbanism on Single Family Housing Values: The Case of Issaquah Highlands
New Urbanism has been a prevalent issue in architecture and planning fields over the last few decades as an alternative to reforming the sprawl pattern of suburban growth. New Urbanist design principles have been adopted ... -
Impact of Riparian Landscape Patterns on Water Quality in an Urbanizing River Basin: A Case of Cedar River - Lake Washington Watershed
The increasing concern about the deteriorating water quality in rivers and streams in urban areas has led to a focus on protecting natural riparian land covers along these water bodies. The conversion of these land covers, ... -
The Impact of Transit-Oriented Development on Residential Property Value in King County, WA
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has long been a powerful tool for improving sustainable urban development. A well-designed TOD project enhances the accessibility to different kinds of activities, decreases transportation ... -
The Impacts of Household Behaviors and Housing Choice on Residential Energy Consumption
(2014-04-30)Despite efforts made in the past decade to curb excessive energy consumption and the corresponding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, both energy consumption and GHG emissions are expected to increase in coming years. Not ... -
Implications of Urbanization and Climate Change for Oregon White Oak (Quercus garryana) Regeneration, Planning, and Management in the Pacific Northwest
(2014-02-24)Land-cover and climate change pose significant challenges to ecological planning and management. Ecological responses to these changes are mediated by the interactions between landscape structure, biodiversity, and ecosystem ... -
Incomplete Streets: Operationalizing Jan Gehl's 12 Quality Criteria on Ballard Avenue
The purpose of streets is far more than to just get from one place to another. Substantial progress has been made in establishing operative definitions of some of the qualities that make streets great. But progress has ... -
Incorporating and measuring social equity in transit service allocation
Transit accessibility is evaluated against theories of equity and social justice. Legal and ideological justifications are used to establish a baseline of "who matters" in equity analyses. A generalizable methodology for ... -
Incorporating Social Equity in Transit Service and Capital Planning: A Preemptive Analysis of Preliminary Bus Rapid Transit Corridor Design in King County, Washington
This study presents an approach for the evaluation of the equity of transportation investments in King County, Washington, with attention to upgrades of existing routes to new “bus rapid transit” service. A review of ... -
Increasing Access to Solar Energy in Seattle, Washington through the Framework of Energy Democracy
This thesis explores solar energy accessibility in Seattle, Washington. I examine current purchase and installation costs for solar energy for single family homes in Seattle, as well as existing barriers to solar energy ... -
Incremental Housing as a Strategy to Address Coastal Hazard-Related Housing Precarity and Vulnerability for Rural Low-Income Households: A Case Study in Westport, WA
As the population vulnerable to extreme weather events and climate change impacts, low-income communities are the most in need of affordable, climate change-resilient housing. However, traditional models for affordable ... -
Industrial Landscape Preservation: An Expanded Approach to Protect the Working Small Town
(2013-04-17)This thesis aims to make historic preservation a more effective instrument for revitalizing small town communities by expanding its focus to include industrial landscape preservation. This concept provides new ways to ... -
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 ... -
Integrating Hazard Mitigation Strategies into the City of Westport’s Comprehensive Plan Update
This thesis is the conclusion of an almost 18-month long process of producing a draft Comprehensive Plan update for the City of Westport, Washington. The key focus of the Comprehensive Plan update was to integrate hazard ... -
Integrating Public Health into Capital Planning for Climate Change: An Exploration of Public Health Measures and Their Use in Capital and Climate Planning
Climate change’s adverse impacts, including increasing heat, flooding risks, and wildfires, pose growing threats to human health, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations and communities. With the majority of ... -
Intermodal Transfers to Light Rail: Using smartcard data to estimate transfer barriers in Seattle, WA
Transfers are a necessary inconvenience to public transit riders. They support strong hierarchical networks by connecting various local, regional, and express lines through a variety of modes. This is true in Seattle where ... -
Investigating an Asset Based Approach to Housing and Homelessness: A Phenomenological Case Study
This thesis is foundationally rooted in the argument that meritocracy capitalism is a force of production for homelessness in America. I contend that American cities are principally economic engines that function on ... -
Investigating the Relationship Between Transit Planning for Leisure and Household Vehicle Ownership in King County
Historically, transportation planning has focused on accommodating peak hour commuting behavior, but in reality, these trips represent just 15% of daily travel (Holden & Linnerud, 2011; Bureau of Transportation Statistics, ... -
Job Accessibility, Commuting Time and Travel Complexity in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA)
Transportation equity is an important dimension of urban sustainability. Specifically, the journey to work, which is still the main source of intra-urban trips in many cities around the world, is a key issue of urban ... -
Keep Your Habitat: Preventing the displacement of vulnerable homeowners in Seattle’s Central District
As housing costs across Seattle steadily rise, both homeowners and renters consider moving outside of the city in search of cheaper housing, often sacrificing convenient access to transit, jobs and amenities. This study ...