Stevenson, DylanLee, Chelsea2024-09-092024-09-092024-09-092024Lee_washington_0250O_26992.pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/1773/52194Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2024Jane Jacobs, a civic activist whose writing continues to influence urban planning, wrote in 1961 that “City planning, as a field, has stagnated. It bustles, but it does not advance” (Jacobs 1961, p. 439). This thesis explores the role that traditional community engagement methods serve in perpetuating segregation in long-range planning through a normalization of prosperity that has reinforced the “matrix of domination,” a term to describe the systems of white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism (Costanza-Chock 2020). The research examines the connections between the people who make decisions in land use planning, and the people who represent communities that have been and continue to be excluded from that process and continue to experience social, cultural, economic, and health disadvantages as a result. The thesis uses research from existing models of community engagement, public policy, and environmental conservation to understand the capacity for humans to adapt to changes that seem radical at the time. The researcher utilized three case studies in Washington state to create a qualitative database of public documents that were analyzed with an inductive approach to identify instances of exceptional planning decisions made by governing bodies in collaboration with an internal advocate for change to deviate from the status quo and promote the long-range vision for the future of the city. The analysis allowed the researcher to develop a framework for a new model of community engagement to reform long-range planning policies and include people who have been excluded from the planning process at the proverbial table of decision-making.application/pdfen-USCC BYco-creationcollaborationcommunity engagementdecision-makingmatrix of dominationpolicy reformUrban planningUrban planningThesis