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Walk a Mile in Her Shoes: A Guidebook for Implementing Role-playing Simulation Games in the Planning Process
Role-playing simulation games can be used as tools in the planning process in order to navigate more effectively in situations that are contentious or involve disparate populations or perspectives. Such games help participants ... -
Walkability and Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection: Understanding the relationship and how it can work on the United States Air Force’s Main Operating Bases
United States Air Force bases are mandated to be both walkable as well as defensible (AT/FP, Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection). These two concepts are, however, often in conflict, with walkability being understood as needing ... -
The Walking City is a Better City: Promoting Human Social-Spatial Understanding as a Foundational Framework for Urban Planning
Walking, and the agency it provides, is a fundamental part of how we as human beings process and engage the world around us. Walking is not simply a mode of transportation but a lens through which we build greater social ... -
Washington State Vehicle Miles Traveled Reduction Benchmarks: How might they be reached?
In 2008, the Washington State legislature established benchmarks to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) per capita over the subsequent 40 years as part of the strategy to reach statutory greenhouse gas emissions limits. ... -
What Contributes to Successful Commute Trip Reduction in the State of Washington? A Focus on Transit Accessibility
Washington State passed the first version of the Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) Law in 1991 and the resulting CTR program has been run by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). The primary goal of the ... -
What Makes People Feel at Home? Reframing Home and Homelessness Through Stories From Seattle's Tent City 3
This is an exploration of “home” in pursuit of a better understanding of “homelessness”. While the literature on home and homelessness reveals various perspectives, social integration was considered most relevant for this ... -
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 ... -
"Where's My Money?" Analysis of Federal COVID-19 Rent Relief in Washington Local Governments
The COVID-19 pandemic upended the nation and triggered the largest approval and release of Federal rent relief since the 2008 Great Recession. However, in 2020 and 2021 only a small fraction of the Federal rent relief was ... -
Who governs?: who plans? : in King County's farmland retention decisionmaking process
(1982)In the United States where the political process dominates planning, the rational application of the planning process and alternative planning approaches have been generally ineffective in resolving urban problems. New ... -
Why Don’t We Plan for Climate Change? Reaffirming Planners’ Roles and Ethical Responsibilities in the Climate Crisis
This thesis answers the question, how are individual planners’ values and ethics reflected in their decisions about planning priorities in communities with severe climate risks? I conducted semi-structured, in-depth ... -
Within The Edge: A revised approach to urban containment within the Chandigarh Periphery
Le Corbusier's vision for an agricultural greenbelt surrounding Chandigarh may have been founded in overly romantic notions of rural India, but its original objective was not far from that of contemporary urban containment ... -
Writing Graffiti in Berlin: Shaping Space and Self in the Postmodern Metropolis, 1990-2017
This work explores radical forms of participation in urban design through a case study involving longtime graffiti writers in Berlin, Germany. Working with archival data as well as over a year of on-site field work, ... -
Zoned for Success: How Urban Planners Can Promote Educational Equality
Abundant research connects residential patterns of segregation to the educational achievement and opportunity gaps between lower-income students of color and higher-income white students. The purpose of this thesis is to ...