McLaren, BrianWatkins, Adrienne Kikuye2012-05-312012-05-312012-05-312011Watkins_washington_0250O_10024.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/19758Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2011Pixelated Urbanism is a strategy for dense urban living through new forms of mixed-use buildings that connect users and programs on a small scale (pixels) to create compact, vertical environments. Pixelated Urbanism moves beyond the stratified programming preconceptions of the existing mixed-use building typology with a range of programs that share space up the building height. Flexible spaces like live-work units, and new overlapped living, socializing, and working relationships create a vibrant vertical neighborhood. This thesis applies pixelated urbanism strategies to a master plan for a 212,000 SF site in the West Seattle Neighborhood. The plan re-knits five underused lots around the intersection of SW Fauntleroy and SW Alaska back into the urban fabric, and leads the way towards the city's projections of a 30% increase in jobs and households in the area in the next fifteen years. The organizing principles of pixelated urbanism are further applied in the design of a single block of the master plan.application/pdfen-USCopyright is held by the individual authors.density; master plan; mixed-use; urban designArchitectureThesis