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Climate Equity: Urban Temperature, Landscape Heterogeneity, and Mitigation Strategies
The rise in global average temperature due to climate change causes uneven heat burdens in urban areas that are systematically associated with the built environment and socioeconomic status. These burdens disproportionately ... -
Columbia City Stakeholders’ Perception of the Proposed Citywide URM Retrofit Mandate
The City of Seattle faces the threat of a major earthquake in the near future. Unreinforced masonry buildings, or URMS, are visually appealing, represent the City’s rich history, and often provide low cost commercial spaces ... -
Comfort, Safety, Delight & Aesthetics: An Evaluation of S Henderson Street’s Pedestrian Realm
What defines a successful, multimodal street? What elements must be incorporated into street design to provide those using non-motorized methods of transportation with a comfortable, safe, delightful, and aesthetically ... -
Communication and Social Action: Policy Stories in the 2011 King County Metro Funding Debate
Urban planners and public policy analysts are surrounded by heated policy debates. Knowing how to recognize and decipher the structures and techniques of persuasive communication will enable planners to construct their ... -
Community and Agency Perspectives on Local Self-Reliance in Disasters
One of the most critical activities to occur in the response to and recovery from a large-scale disaster is the connecting of affected people to the things they need, especially in scenarios that can leave a community ... -
Community Engagement is Harming Cities: Disrupting Racial Planning for a Planning End of Shared Well-being
This thesis will contribute to planning theory and practice the idea that means-based planning theories and racial planning enable community engagement processes to have negative impacts on the city and the public’s ... -
Community governance and Urban Design in an Historic Preservation District: The Case of Pingjiang Historic Block in Suzhou, China
Community governance in planning is an emergent topic in China, where urban planning generally has not included community planning as a local participatory practice. This thesis focuses on Suzhou's old communities in the ... -
Community matters: Local knowledge and social connections for disaster preparedness in Washington State
People have capacities, skills, and knowledge that they often utilize to recover from a disaster but which are overlooked by planners and policymakers (Aldrich, 2017; Dynes, 2002; LaLone, 2012; Tierney, 2014). Voices of ... -
Community Resilience of the Korean New Village Movement, 1970-1979: Historical Interpretation and Resilience Assessment
This dissertation investigates the Korean New Village Movement (Saemaul Undong, New Rural Community Movement, or the KNVM) driven by the strong top-down leadership of President Park, Chung-hee in the 1970s. As a reaction ... -
Comparative Research on Rural Redevelopment planning in the Linpan Landscape: Case Study of Sandaoyan Town, Chengdu.
The rapid urbanization of China has greatly affected farmers, rural villages and agriculture, and exacerbated the contradictions and trade-offs that always accompany change in complex ecosystems. Conflicts between economic ... -
A Comparative Study of Design Guidelines for Chinatowns in North America: A Reference for Façade Design Regulation in Seattle’s Chinatown – International District
This research is a comparative study of building design guidelines in North American Chinatowns, with specific attention to the exteriors façade design of historically significant buildings. It aims to provide insight as ... -
Complement or Substitute? An Analysis of Bikeshare’s Effect on Transit Ridership in Portland
Free-floating bikeshare is a relatively new service in North America but offers significant mobility benefits and intriguing potential for first- and last-mile access to transit. This study of Portland’s Biketown system ... -
Conflicts and Common Ground Between Density, Affordability, and Historic Preservation in the Wallingford-Meridian Streetcar Historic District Case Study
The nomination of the Wallingford-Meridian Streetcar Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places following the passage of citywide rezones and Mandatory Housing Affordability in Seattle prompted a variety ... -
Cross-Cultural Communication for International Urban Design Practice: Lessons from a Field Studio in China
(2013-02-25)Economic realities are leading more and more Western and American Architect-Engineer-Consultant (AEC) firms to work in China. To be successful, these firms must not only be skilled in physical design, but also in ... -
A Cry and a Demand: Tactical Urbanism and the Right to the City
In many cities around the world a growing interest in small-scale urban design interventions is reshaping urban spaces. These actions (often called tactical urbanism) include: guerrilla and community gardening; `creative ... -
Cultural Resilience in Diasporic Communities: The Case of the Arab Community in Greater Seattle Area
Urban design and the placemaking profession are centered on a dominant model of spatial production of the public realm. Non-dominant groups, including the immigrant communities like Arabs, are underrepresented and often ... -
“Dancing Until…?” A Community Strategy for Preserving the Black and Tan Club’s Cultural Heritage in Seattle’s Chinatown International-District
This graduate thesis determines a post-positivist framing for preserving intersectional spaces and heritage in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District by engaging with the legacy, memory, and current preservation discourse ... -
Data Visualization and Analytics to Support Accessible Pedestrian Planning and Decision-Making
Transportation planners cannot begin to address inaccessible pedestrian networks if they are not aware of the type and location of the network deficiencies. Unfortunately, planning tools that visualize these networks are ... -
Decisions in Motion: Exploring the Impact of Plan Implementation and Decision-Making on Cyclist and Pedestrian Safety
The increasing emphasis on sustainable and active transportation modes, such as cycling and walking, highlights the need to prioritize the safety of cyclists and pedestrians in urban environments. This thesis investigates ... -
Defining A Cultural Landscape: A Mixed-Modal Conversation on Whidbey Island
The intent of this research is to define a cultural landscape on the southern end of Whidbey Island. Simply put, it is a strategy toward the development of a viable method to both preserve and conserve the south end of ...