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The Dilemma of Urban Road Space Reallocation: An Outreach and Engagement Strategy for Bus Rapid Transit on Seattle's Madison Street
(2013-07-25)The 2012 Seattle Transit Master Plan recommends bus rapid transit (BRT) for a new high capacity transit line on Madison Street. In the most recent budget, the City approved $1 million to study and develop a BRT concept for ... -
Disasters are not inevitable: social vulnerability, hazard losses, and adaptive learning in communities of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal watersheds
Hazard losses in the United States have increased over the past several decades. With over one-third U.S. residents living in coastal counties, the potential impacts from hazards related to coasts are a particular concern. ... -
Diversity, Inclusion, Underrepresented Communities, and Historic Preservation: A Study of Preserving Jewish Heritage in the Seattle Central Area Engaging an Intersectional Framework
The historic preservation field is grappling with a “diversity deficit:” resources that are officially recognized as significant do not fully represent America’s diverse population, and historically marginalized communities ... -
Do Complete Streets Offer Cyclists High Levels of Service? Applying David Harkey’s Bicycle Compatibility Index to Seattle and Copenhagen’s Complete Street Networks
Cities like Seattle are looking to increase active transportation trips like cycling over automotive trips to meet sustainability and equity goals. Seattle works to create “complete streets,” roads that provide infrastructure ... -
Do we need rooftop gardens? The benefits and personal experience of rooftop gardens in multi-family housing in Seattle
This research studies peoples’ experiences of rooftop gardens in select Seattle multi-family apartment buildings and attempts to determine how residents benefit from them. As the population in Seattle increases, less ... -
Does Climate Investment Funding Intensify Green Gentrification in San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley Bay Area?
Climate change has negatively impacted human health, livelihoods, and key infrastructure in urban areas, especially within communities with economically and socially marginalized residents. To reduce exposure and vulnerability ... -
Does Rail Transit Induce Displacement? A Longitudinal Study of 24 US Metro Areas From 2000-2017
After decades of decline, large US cities have begun reinvesting in urban neighborhoods including the construction of rail transit. Concerns over rail transit’s role in driving displacement has become hotly debated. Community ... -
Driving Electric with Equity: A Survey of Current Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, Policies and Planning
Electric vehicles (EV) and the electrification of the transportation sector is critical to reduce carbon emission. Governments are implementing large scales of public policies, regulations, incentives, and disincentives ... -
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. ...