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Quantifying and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Local Government Cement and Asphalt Purchasing
As the effects of anthropogenic climate change come to bear, increasing numbers of local governments are engaging in climate action planning to quantify and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Only recently, however, ... -
Racial Justice-Oriented Grantmaking: A Community-Driven Improvement Plan for Seattle’s Equitable Development Initiative Fund
Purpose: People of color are disproportionately displaced from Seattle as the city rapidly gentrifies and its cost of living soars. The City of Seattle’s Equitable Development Initiative (EDI) Fund was created in partnership ... -
Raze-or-Retrofit: Institutional Influences on Redevelopment for Energy Efficiency
(2012-08-10)Both my Architecture (M.Arch) and Planning (MUP) theses work around the rubric of the Architecture 2030 Challenge and the efforts of the Seattle 2030 District to meet it (2030DC - see http://www.2030district.org/seattle/ ... -
Reclaiming the Right of Way: A New Infill Model for the Urban US A Seattle Case Study
Like many US cities, Seattle is facing a housing affordability crisis. Could its streets serve as an unrecognized publicly-controlled asset to combat this crisis while also disincentivizing private vehicles? Expanding on ... -
RECOMMENDATION OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TAXING FOR THE CITY OF WENZHOU
(2014-02-24)The objective of this thesis is to make recommendations for a residential property tax mechanism for the city of Wenzhou, China. The research question is " Given what can be learned from the U.S. system, how can we improve ... -
RECONCEPTUALIZING VALUE & SPACE: LEARNING FROM THE SLUMDWELLERS OF DELHI
The world is urbanizing at a rapid rate and since 2009, more people live in cities than in rural areas. As the predominant mode of habitation, cities are understood as the spatialization of capitalist social relations in ... -
Reconstructing Developer and Homeowner Decisions to Understand the Complex Assembly of New Residential Patches and Plant Communities
Residential developers and homeowners are urban ecosystem engineers, shaping the structure and function of the residential landscapes, which occupy a large proportion of urban areas. Developers set the template by allocating ... -
Redefining Urban Alleywalls: Urban Design for Active Public Space in Maynard Alley, Chinatown-International District, Seattle
The network of alley is valuable social resource especially in dense urban area with limited space for public life. Projects are emerging across the world to turn the previous ignored “back of buildings” into safe, clean, ... -
Redeveloping Gas Station Sites to Pocket Parks in the City of Seattle – A Benefit-Cost Analysis
The City of Seattle has little vacant land to accommodate its projected growth in population and jobs. Due to this lack of land, developers are looking to redevelop land that is currently being used or is underutilized. ... -
Redevelopment of Seattle’s Urban Industrial Environment with Affordable Housing: Increasing Affordable Housing on the National Guard Armory Site
Among the attempts of solving the ever-worsening homelessness and housing crises found in most major cities across the United States, the idea of post-industrial land redevelopment has yet to set ablaze due to various ... -
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Alterations to the Public Right-of-Way
The climate system is warming, and the primary cause of this warming since the mid-20th century is likely to be the increase in emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. This thesis examines strategies that reduce ... -
Reducing the Urban Heat Island Effect In Copenhagen
(University of Washington Department of Urban Planning, 2013)The urban heat Island effect is a well-known phenomenon that has been documented and studied in many urban areas. Put simply, an urban heat island effect occurs when a city is generally warmer than its surrounding ... -
Reflections on Recovery: Analyzing disaster recovery frameworks for the cities of Seattle and Wellington through a lens of reflexive sociology
University of Washington Abstract Reflections on Recovery: Analyzing disaster recovery frameworks for the cities of Seattle and Wellington through a lens of reflexive sociology Samuel Ripley Chair of the Supervisory ... -
Regional Open-space Conservation Strategies: A Case Study of the Intertwine Alliance's Regional Conservation Strategy
Ecological processes do not adhere to political boundaries. As planners grapple to accommodate natural processes with human development, these borders must be reevaluated and strategies of coordination across them must be ... -
The relationship between resident satisfaction and apartment forms: a case study in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, Korea
(1999)The major objective of this research is to study the relationship between apartment forms and resident satisfaction in the Seoul metropolitan area. To achieve this objective, the study has followed three steps. The first ... -
Relocation and Resilience: Exploring Co-Benefits in Aberdeen, WA
The field of planning typically focuses on preparing for the expected, but does not pay enough attention to uncertain and extreme events that have the potential to reconfigure communities. I focus this thesis on Aberdeen, ... -
The Residential Urban Forest: Linking structure, function and management
(2014-02-24)Vegetation provides a suite of ecosystem functions (e.g., carbon storage) which are partially determined by the forest structure. In urbanizing regions, homeowners play a key role in shaping the structure of the urban ... -
Residual San Francisco: Evaluating Identity and Creating Distinction for Bayview's PDR Districts
This thesis explores rising inequality and the series of decisions leading up to San Francisco's intensifying social, economic, and digital divide. The decline of Production, Distribution, and Repair (PDR) land allocation ... -
Retail Spaces in Mixed-Use Developments: Supporting Small Businesses and Creating Place in Seattle’s Neighborhoods
At a time of breakneck development in Seattle, mixed-use developments are seen as a way to provide increased housing options for the city’s newcomers, concentrate and strengthen existing commercial corridors, and protect ... -
A Review of the Traffic Safety Culture in Europe to Improve Pedestrian Safety In the U.S.: Lessons from France and Sweden
In the U.S., current pedestrian-vehicle crash prevention strategies are mostly focused on engineering interventions rather than measures for preventing unsafe road behavior (i.e. speeding and drunk-driving). This thesis ...