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University of Washington: Home or Hell?

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Adjusting to City Life

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Pedagogical Urbanism: Explored

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Religion in Communities

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Kelp Farming

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Hindsight 2020

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Houselessness: A Perspective During a Turbulent Year

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Saving the World While Saving You Money

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Become Your Own HEARO

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Hindsight is 2020

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Black Wealth: Through Hip Hop and Real Estate

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Bl*ck Empowerment Party

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Holding Space

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Parkway to Park

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Community in Space

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Reimagining & Reactivating Snee-oosh Point

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Weathering the Storm

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Something is Unfolding

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The Power of Presence

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Mapping Empty Office Space as a Solution for Temporary Housing

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The Olympic Games: A Sustainable Future for All

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Stadiums as Sustainable Systems

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Guerrilla Food in the City

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Green Stormwater Infrastructure

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Point: Defiance

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Technology and Enchantment

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Indigenizing Landscape Design

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Cross Culture Design Toolkit

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Unpacking the Classroom

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Your University is a Carceral Institution

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Crowdsourcing Collegiate Intimacy

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Sustainable Airports

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Pan African Development

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CEP Archive: Context and Content

CEP Timeline

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Hostile Architecture Interactive Mapping Project

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The Nourishing Complex

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Table & Harvest

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The Mentor Mindset

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A Genderqueer Experience in Seattle’s Informal Music Industry

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Greening Husky Athletics

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Meditation Magic

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Food Book

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Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives

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Igniting Sustainable Business

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3D Printing in Africa

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Transit on Demand

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Gender in Public Universities

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Inclusive Open Space

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Spread Roots in the City

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Artscapes Representing Terrain

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QTPOC in the Woods: Joy & Resistance

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Temporal Ties

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Teeny the Tiny House

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Math is Fem

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Hip Hop and the Built Environment

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Planning for Inclusiveness

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Changing the Nature of Play

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Exposing the Truth that Perpetuates Segregation in the Pacific Northwest

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The Comeback Community

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Climate Resilience in Oceania

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Closing the Loop: Urban Agriculture Solutions

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Identity Displacement

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Urban Legends: Teotihuacan

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Preparing for Post-Graduate Success

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The Creative Play Initiative

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Building Smart Cities by Improving Public Infrastructure

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Development of Underdevelopment

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The Language of Liberals & Conservatives

Over the last decade, the American news media landscape has changed in concurrence with the growing variety and number of news sources. Traditional news outlets, with higher expectations of journalistic standards, are challenged for viewership by news sources with significantly more ideological spin and less accountability. The implications of this transformation are debated, but some...

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Reclaiming Equity through Space

WEBSITE The population of multiracial and multicultural individuals in the United States has steadily risen, but few public spaces have been designed to represent them or express their identities. Individuals in this group can find themselves feeling isolated from spaces because they feel like “imposters’ or that they have to choose only one part of...

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University 2030

Universities are increasingly expected to integrate sustainability best practices throughout their planning, operations, academics and engagement. Universities should also consider their sustainability impact beyond institutional boundaries to advance community and global sustainability goals. What’s needed is a framework for university sustainability planning that aligns established institutional metrics, with the latest community, city and global sustainability...

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Workout While Waiting: Installing Fitness Equipment at Bus Shelters

WEBSITE People in Seattle who use public transportation as their main mode of transportation accumulate a great amount of time waiting for public transit. Seattle’s adult obesity rate has also nearly tripled since 1990. Could one solution to Seattle’s obesity problem be found in the waiting time of bus riders? This project examines the feasibility...

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Exploring Ridgefield

In cities where there is a growing population such as Ridgefield, there is an opportunity to help foster a sense of place in new and existing residents. This project and paper examined how a walking tour helps residents connect with their community, making a place more than just a location. This project was a two-part...

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Seattle Homeless Housing Guidelines

WEBSITE The city of Seattle and King county has declared a state of emergency in 2015 for the crisis on people experiencing homeless. Since then, the contributing factor to stop the growth and lowering people living unsheltered on the streets has been never ending. As the problem becomes more transparent we see that affordable housing,...

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The Benson Hill Neighborhood Integrated Utility Greenway

Humans thrive when they feel connected to nature and their surroundings. Providing green space and creating a sense of place identity are two issues that cities often have to address. My project explores how by becoming what is known as an integrated utility greenway, the undeveloped green space under an overhead power line right-of-way in...

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Homeownership & Wealth

WEBSITE Housing inequality is one of the most significant challenges facing future generations of Americans. The average homeowner in America has a net worth 36 times greater than the average renter. My senior project sought to illuminate the forgotten causes of this disparity and consisted of two distinct parts. First, I conducted a policy analysis...

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Agreement and Dissent

WEBSITE A central question of group decision-making, and thus of community planning and politics, is how to balance democracy and efficiency. The status quo struggles with this balance, but so may consensus processes. While negotiating toward unanimity protects the right of minority views that would otherwise be consistently overruled, it also potentially allows anyone to...

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Being Yourself at Your Most Vulnerable

The LGBTQ population are at many disadvantages when it comes to health and healthcare. LGBTQ are at higher risks of certain physical ailments, substances abuse, and mental health disorders then the general heterosexual population. The issue we see are many LGBTQ people feel that they are unable to feel welcome in healthcare settings, and with...

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One Day My Story Gon’ Pay

My project aims to look at the barriers that Latino/a students face in higher education, including low high school and college graduation rates. In order to look at some of the barriers that prevent Latino/as from attaining similar levels of education as other Americans, I interviewed 10 Latino/a students about their experience with education so...

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Making Nothing Something

There is a common thread among contemporary circus art disciplines that is unique in the performance world. It is a blend of theater, dance, and acrobatic skill that can produce amazingly complex and captivating works. When comparing the choreographic processes of these performance mediums with the creative practices of solo contemporary circus artists, do new...

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Reimagining Stormwater Infrastructure on Campus

WEBSITE With a campus of over seven hundred acres that borders two environmentally sensitive waterways, managing stormwater runoff is an important task for the University of Washington. Currently, the University meets the standards of stormwater management for new development dictated by local, state, and federal agencies, but incorporates very few of the latest and most...

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E-Kidts

WEBSITE Encouraging creativity among people is important, especially during their teenage years. Unfortunately, most educational projects lack excitement as well as practical applications. How can building an electric motorbike inspire the next generation of builders? Aimed to spark interest in science, technology, engineering, and math, STEM, I have created a consumer-direct kit where teenagers and...

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South Beacon Light Rail Accessibility

WEBSITE Geographical, and topographical barriers limit pedestrian accessibility to the light rail station in South Seattle for residents living between S Holden and S Cambridge St on Beacon Avenue. This project explores ways of overcoming these barriers. The project includes a site analysis of the impacted area, interviews with local residents about their travel habits,...

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A Resident’s Guide to North Highline Annexation

WEBSITE Municipal Annexation is one of the most powerful tools in urban planning, yet its use often sparks controversy and drawn-out political conflicts. In the Seattle area, the potential annexation of the unincorporated area of North Highline has been a subject of debate for over a decade. Annexation studies on unincorporated areas in the Seattle...

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Dream Acres

WEBSITE Relevant to Western Washington State agricultural production, this project examines the impact of land use policy and related programs on the urban-rural divide in Pierce and King Counties. The urban-rural divide is a conceptual framework for understanding the social, economic, and political disparities between urban and rural life and how these disparities affect interactions...

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Why is Smoking Cigarettes So Popular in China?

WEBSITE Over 300 million people in China smoke cigarettes. Indeed, throughout most of China, cigarette use is widely accepted and even promoted, while many people don’t believe or fully understand the harm cigarettes can cause. This project attempts to understand why cigarette smoking is so popular. Specifically, I ask whether certain social customs and cultural...

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Designs by Origin

WEBSITE Human behavior can be understood through the lens of evolutionary psychology as the product of biological and psychological adaptations to an ancestral environment. This approach serves as my conceptual basis for design as I ask the question, how can we create public spaces best suited to our evolved needs as Homo sapiens? I begin...

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Nature’s Value

WEBSITE In our world, we standardize worth with money. We determine a market price for everything we care about–objects, services, experiences, information, time–and can compare worth between seemingly incomparable concepts. Anything that doesn’t have a market value is very difficult to count or weigh; and nature is one such concept. Ecosystem Services Valuation (ESV) is...

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Participatory Mapping for Community Engagement and Empowerment

WEBSITE Mapping and spatial analysis can be powerful tools for producing knowledge and making decisions. Participatory mapping, which is a “bottom-up” form of map-making, can enable local communities to be directly involved in these processes. Participatory mapping can vary from small community workshops to online mapping applications, but whether a certain technique will be successful...

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Small Steps in Downtown Renton

WEBSITE Located 12 miles south of Seattle, the city of Renton is undergoing rapid growth and is searching for ways to activate underutilized land in the Downtown Civic Core. This project analyzes one of these vacant parcels – a former Big 5 lot that is connected to Piazza Park and Gateway Park and has the...

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The Ballard Mural Project

WEBSITE Rapid urbanization is a tidal wave that is taking over many Seattle neighborhoods that we know and cherish. Identical large scale apartment buildings are tearing down culturally significant buildings and simultaneously tearing away at the identity of a neighborhood. A way to combat this unforeseen growth is urban art. On top of combatting this...

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From Rust to Robust

WEBSITE Have you ever wondered what happens to old factories or industrial sites when they are no longer being put to use? This project explores the effects of different redevelopment sites around the country and some of the lessons learned from these projects. These lessons will then be looked at in the context of Bellingham,...

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How Motivational Speaking Can Change to Empower Latina Women

WEBSITE Motivational speakers choose to share their messages to attentive audiences in hopes of uplifting and inspiring listeners to make positive change. However, despite their encouraging spirits, motivational speakers can strive to be more inclusive by acknowledging how women of color encounter certain barriers such as cost, representation, and specificity in programs that may prevent...

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Graduating Green

In recent years, the University of Washington has promoted itself as a green leader in higher education and has made significant strides towards increasing sustainability efforts on campus. One area in which the University has not focused heavily on sustainability is in the curriculum. To address this gap, I developed a basic framework for implementing...

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Reclaiming Identity through Space: Designing for the Multiracial and Multicultural

The population of multiracial and multicultural individuals in the United States has steadily risen, but few public spaces have been designed to represent them or express their identities. Individuals in this group can find themselves feeling isolated from spaces because they feel like “imposters” or that they have to choose only one part of their...

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Plants Over Poultry

WEBSITE This project assessed how plant-based meat substitutes can most effectively replace animal-based meat. I focus specifically on chicken, the most widely produced animal in the meat industry. 9,000,000,000 chickens are killed for meat every year in the United States, dwarfing the number of all other animals used for meat combined. Chicken production is a...

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Eat on the Street in Hong Kong

WEBSITE The itinerant hawkers and street food in Hong Kong (HK) are disappearing in just a few generations, HK’s mobile hawkers and street food are such an important characteristic of HK, but they keep losing value! Therefore, my project would like to investigate this issue and see how the street food culture can be explored...

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Trash Mapping: Following the Paths of Our Waste

WEBSITE Seattle is a hub for sustainability. One important aspect of obtaining a sustainable society is to divert material from local landfills to alternatives such as recycling and composting. However, despite efforts to educate people about these choices, many people remain confused when confronted with a series of bins for depositing their trash. That being...

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Health by Design

WEBSITE This project seeks to successfully integrate Evidence-Based Design strategies with J.Todd Robinson’s Hierarchy of Needs Supporting Human Health in the theoretical redesign of a standard impatient unit at Virginia Mason Medical Center’s Capitol Hill campus in Seattle, Washington. Specifically, it hypothesizes that the strategic placement of Evidence Based Design (EBD) findings on the topics...

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A Glimpse into Seattle’s Independent Brewery Scene

WEBSITE Seattle is widely known for its extensive and very successful independent microbrewery industry. My senior project seeks to document the rich culture of Seattle’s beer scene through photography and interviews with local owners and brewers. To guide the trajectory of my project, I asked myself the following question: “How is the local brewery culture...

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Activist Poetics

WEBSITE “Activism” is often associated with aggression, extremism, romanticism, and destruction rendering it ineffective and polarizing. Given the unstable state of Earth’s ecosystems today, environmental activism needs to be as powerful as possible in creating change. My senior project investigated where art and ecopsychology fit into activism and how poetry can inspire action. To explore this, I immersed myself...

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Somalia: Exploring Major Causes of Migration

WEBSITE Somalia’s challenges as a whole are extensive, seeming impossible to generate results. Social and political volatility and the coinciding of clan system with a teething democracy make Somalia’s circumstance a convoluted one. This complexity is further magnified by rapid urban growth, making it strenuous to centralize the potential advantages of a well-structured urban context...

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Ending Homelessness: Effective Outreach to the Homeless Population

WEBSITE In metropolitan areas, homelessness is part of the community and also a problem to local government which need to address or end. To end the homelessness, the profit, nonprofit organizations and local government are providing shelter, mental health service and food to homeless people. But there are still a lot of homelessness loitering and...

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Touch the Waterfront

Seattle’s downtown waterfront is undergoing a huge transformation. The new vision, dubbed “A Waterfront for All”, removes the elevated highway separating downtown Seattle from its waterfront and replaces it with a 26-block long park that will feature green public spaces, connective pathways, a bike path, and enhanced streetscapes. To help the people of Seattle better...

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Renew Rethink Refill

WEBSITE Temporary use of space in urbanism can be roughly described as the reallocation of unused or underutilized space, which can act as a catalyst to enliven and rehabilitate cities and neighborhoods. Once a bottom-up, do-it-yourself strategy for the creative reappropriation of urban space, temporary use projects are increasingly integrated into many modern top-down urban planning...

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Elevating Seattle’s Understanding of Safety Perception & Cycle Tracks

It has been proven that cycle tracks are the safest form of bike infrastructure in terms of car-bike collisions, however this study explores how different buffers in cycle tracks rank in terms of safety perception. Safety perception is measured by an online survey that asks respondents to rank how comfortable they would be using various...

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You Are Not Alone

WEBSITE Mental health is a tough subject to tackle. It’s messy, it’s unclear, and it’s difficult to pin down. It has stigma attached to it and people do not want to touch it. This is especially true for Asian Americans. According to the NLAAS (National Latino and Asian American Study) on mental health and many...

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Mega Effects of Mega Events

WEBSITE Mega events, such as the Olympic Games or the FIFA World Cup, are catalysts for change and transformation in cities and countries across the globe that attract a large number of visitors, have a large reach, incur large costs, and have large impacts on the built environment and population. This project has analyzed data...

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Divesting from Disposables

WEBSITE The University of Washington prides itself on being a leader in sustainability, but it is currently not doing all that it can to reduce carbon emissions and the waste that ends up in landfills. In particular, the UW continues to allow the sale of disposable water bottles, which contribute to the University’s carbon footprint...

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A Feast for the Senses

WEBSITE To promote holistically healthy and nutritious food systems and challenge the dominant narrative about food in the US, I hosted a café and curated a disruptive advertising campaign and art exhibition in the University of Washington Business School that highlighted truths about the industrial and sustainable food systems and their social and environmental effects....

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Seattle Bike Share Program

WEBSITE As a student, I have found it impossible to walk to class without seeing at least a couple bike share bikes. You’ve probably seen them around: these green, yellow and orange bicycles have been introduced in a pilot program by the Seattle Department of Transportation to test whether dockless bike share can overcome the...

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Stitching Back Seattle: Creating the Lid I-5 Toolkit

Interstate 5 is a freeway that runs north/south through the heart of Seattle, splitting the residential area of Capitol Hill from the central business district of Downtown. Recently, a group of urban activists and designers has proposed a solution to this problem in the form of a “lid” or cover over the I-5 roadway that...

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An Analysis of Colorism in the Mexican Immigrant Community

WEBSITE My research poses the following question: how does colorism affect the Mexican immigrant community in Yakima, Washington? Colorism is the allocation of privilege or disadvantage based on one’s skin color. In Yakima, Mexican immigrants suffer marginalization not only based upon their class and citizenship, but also their skin color. This latter form of discrimination...

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A Smartphone App for Sugar-Free Shopping

WEBSITE Research shows that the excessive consumption of sugar is one of the primary factors leading to obesity and health problems in America. One of the most significant sources of added sugars in American diets is breakfast cereal. The aim of this project is to explore the potential of a smartphone app to educate and...

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Sustainability in UW Dentistry: Introducing Bamboo Toothbrushes

WEBSITE Every year in the United States, 50 million pounds of plastic toothbrushes are sent to landfills. This project aims to change that by convincing the American public to switch to compostable bamboo toothbrushes. To do this, I created a pilot program for the University of Washington School of Dentistry faculty and students to receive...

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Fly Fishing in the Pacific Northwest

WEBSITE We are faced at present with an interesting dichotomy, we are at present the most aware and apprehensive about environmental impact and changes than we have ever been in history, yet we are developing and growing faster than we have in recent history. The goal of my senior project, and in fact my educational...

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Redesigning the Burke-Gilman Trail

WEBSITE The Burke-Gilman Trail is a popular and heavily used pedestrian and cycling trail that runs 27 miles through the City of Seattle and suburbs to the north. As an urban trail, the Burke-Gilman has several “conflict zones” where changes in trail typology create safety problems for the trail users. This project seeks to first...

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Addressing Affordability in Seattle through Parking Policy

WEBSITE While many people enjoy the luxury and convenience of on-site parking, most do not know that their parking spot is raising the cost of their housing. Many cities, including Seattle, have minimum parking requirements that regulate the amount of parking spaces built for new residential dwelling units. The average cost of building a parking...

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How to Drive a Walking School Bus

WEBSITE With 21% of Seattle youth suffering from obesity and 83% of students living within the walk zone of their school, there is a clear need and opportunity to encourage students to walk to school. A Walking School Bus aims to meet this need by providing children with an adult supervised walking group that commutes...

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Pacific Ave Park Master Plan

WEBSITE This project aims to create a comprehensive park master plan for the transformation of the City of Westport, Washington’s Pacific Ave property into a functional public park by utilizing principles of ecological restoration and community-based restoration. Within the recently finalized City of Westport Comprehensive Park and Recreation Plan, the Pacific Ave property is zoned...

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Dancing Decolonized and Transcending Colonial Identities

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Demystifying the Campus Master Planning Process

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New Normals and Narratives of Nothing: Affect and Planning

WEBSITE This project centers around a recognition that cities, fundamentally, are sites of identity. Embedded in place at all times, we are constantly in states of becoming, being formed by our surroundings and interactions and forming others in return. This becoming is one that is situated in affect. When urban planners intervene in space, we...

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Humans of Street Music: Telling the Stories of Public Performance

WEBSITE Though people of Seattle get to see street music all around them, many will never get to know the origins or stories that bring those musicians to the street. My project unearthed these experiences to humanize the performances, to share the stories of buskers with my communities, and to foster a deeper appreciation for...

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What Makes Art Honest?

WEBSITE Throughout history, there has seemed to be an indelible drive in the human race to put forth artistic expressions derived from self and external influence of all kinds. When a proclamation is put forward by an artist through their work, a facet of the piece arises that is crucial but often overlooked: the honesty...

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Pop-Up Bazaar: A Celebration of Love, Art & Progress

WEBSITE distance themselves from the exercise. Based on survey results, this reaction is primarily attributed to a lack of understanding or familiarity with the topic. Comfort and a willingness to participate begins with a familiarity of that topic and currently the planning realm and student realm are very disconnected. In response, this past year I...

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The Effect of Transit Subsidies on Employee Transit Utilization in Smartcard Data

This research aims to understand how Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) transit subsidy programs, when controlling for various built environment variables and the structure of the transit network, impact the number of trips individual employees of large employers in the Central Puget Sound region take commuting from their worksite. This transit utilization is measured using the...

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Community Building in the Digital Age

With the advent of the 21st century, studying abroad has become a common practice. The increase in the number of study abroad opportunities has resulted in a growing number of Chinese students studying in American colleges and universities. Although some students encounter language and cultural barriers when they first move to the United States, the...

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Planting the Seed: A Workshop for Students to Explore Environmental Careers

WEBSITE With climate change being among the biggest problems humanity faces, it is essential that youth are encouraged to pursue careers to combat it. In this project, I conduct a workshop that allows students to explore environmental careers. The workshops were conducted at a local high school to students ranging from freshman to senior...

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Justice Unrealized

WEBSITE Seattle’s eviction process features progressive policies and programs, including just- cause ordinances, limited dissemination legislation, “clean hands” regulations, and a limited-service legal clinic for low-income tenants. In spite of this, nearly 60% of cases result in default judgements against the tenant, and the majority that do not default are ruled in favor of the...

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Re/Imagining Summit Ave: Reclaiming the Right-of-Way

WEBSITE As Seattle continues to grow and densify, it is critical to consider the importance of green space in the urban environment. Green space is essential to the our built spaces because it provides environmental, human health and wellness, and economic benefits. We must reconsider how we define green space and include it in the...

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Curbing Conservation

WEBSITE Conservation districts are found in cities across America.They focus on responsibly developing areas that have historical significance, cultural relevance, or unique architectural features. In the case of Capitol Hill, all of the above components are present, and it became Seattle’s only conservation district in 2009. My project chronicles this conservation district, through interviews...

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Cycle Pack

WEBSITE The plethora of positive social, and environmental benefits that result from cycling inspired me to research how the University of Washington could increase bicycle ridership on and to campus. Preliminary research uncovered a gap in services provided to students who live within biking distance of campus, but do not have access to a bicycle. My research also...

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Attract People to the Streets

Every city around the world has a different urban history with specific social, political, and economical cultures along with it. However, we have reached a point in urbanization where cities all share the same challenges when it comes to urban planning. The common goal for them is to become more livable and people friendly. One...

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Maximizing the Effectiveness of University Smartphone Apps

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Just My Type: Developing a Community for Type 1 Diabetics at the University of Washington

WEBSITE About 1.25 million Americans have type 1 diabetes. Statistically, there should be around 150 students at the University of Washington and around 14,60 in the greater Seattle area with type 1. Because diabetes is a chronic condition that requires 24/7 management, it can be extremely burdensome and lead to high rates of stress and...

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Engaging the Original Seattleites

WEBSITE Over two-thirds of Native Americans live in urban metropolitan areas, but they are often underrepresented through existing urban planning outreach methods and events. Cities must be planned with the needs of Native Americans in mind. If ignored, cities will be a barrier to the continuation of Native American culture and enforce oppressive colonization culture....

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Memories of a Dish: Personal and Cultural Identities Expressed Through Food

WEBSITE Food practices (cooking and eating) are a reflection of a culture or country. Food is born out of available ingredients and is therefore tied to a geographical location and its established societies. Seattle attracts people from all over the world who bring with them their food culture creating diverse neighborhoods and populations. I explore...

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We’re Trying to Reach You!

WEBSITE Tension can grow between local community groups and people perceived as having the power to make large-scale changes (like city government employees, commissions, and boards) when community members feel that their input is not considered or that they are not reaching City of Seattle officials through the correct methods. This project identifies the strategies...

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Solution to Urban Traffic: Analyzing Road Space Rationing Policies in Beijing

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Increasing Environmental Appreciation through Photography in Public Schools

There is a current lack of art and outdoor environmental education within the public school system in Seattle. Outdoor education refers to any topic that is taught outside, while environmental education concerns the natural environment and issues that pertain to the natural environment. Students are often taught about problems relating to our environment, but they...

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Amplifying Stories of Women, Art, & Politics

WEBSITE “Makers” is a podcast series featuring six local female artists answering the basic question “Does art have the power to make political change?” The interviewed artists practice a variety of artistic mediums including theater, music, graphic design, dance, and film. In the podcast, each woman speaks of her experiences as a female artist, of...

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Community Development through Freedom of Space: Public Spaces and Cultural Identities

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Hindering Hunger: Destigmatizing Social Services with a Targeted Outreach Strategy

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CEP: Comitted to Equity in Planning

WEBSITE CEP: Committed to Equity in Planning addresses the lack of racial diversity in the Community, Environment & Planning (CEP) program at the University of Washington. This project produces a formal equity plan for CEP, ensuring that future programmatic efforts touch as many racially diverse communities on campus as possible and establishes CEP students as leaders in social equity...

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Healthy Cities, Healthy Bodies

WEBSITE Numerous cities around the globe have adopted tactical urbanism interventions within their planning departments. Tactical urbanism is attractive due to its low-risk, short-term, and low-cost urban design interventions of a community’s built and natural environments. Planning departments are often the catalysts of tactical urbanism. For example, the City of Seattle has recently started a tactical urbanism...

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Public Universities and Private Crime

WEBSITE Currently, the University of Washington’s Notifications of Criminal Incidents notify members of the UW community about less than five percent of all crimes that occur in the University District, and the criteria the emergency communications committee uses to determine whether to report specific events is not easily accessible to the UW community. This lack...

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Deterring Crime through Tactical Design

WEBSITE Abstract Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is an alternative approach to deterring criminal behavior through the application of interdisciplinary design principles within the natural and built environment. This project seeks to pair particular CPTED principles to site-specific residential deficiencies within the neighborhood north of the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. Currently, there is...

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Decolonizing the Land

WEBSITE Abstract Colonialism and globalized capitalism have created a civilization divorced from nature and disconnected from place. These forces have also worked to undermine and destroy Indigenous cultures and languages in pursuit of control over land and resources. I created a campus walking tour to teach the Lushootseed names for the plants as an act...

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Seeing Green

WEBSITE Abstract Due to increasing urbanization, cities including Seattle are seeking creative means of increasing the amount of greenspace in their urban environments. Green walls are one example of including natural elements on vertical surfaces that are often left unutilized. Green walls have been linked to a wide range of benefits regarding sustainability. Compared to the social elements of...

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Livable City Year

WEBSITE Abstract The model for this type of university-community partnership is a potential solution to a long existing gap between knowledge and practice. Historically, this gap has been perpetuated by the unwillingness of universities to make both intellectual and financial investments in their surrounding communities. The purpose of this project is to both guide an...

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Street Style

PARADIGM SHIFTS WEBSITE Abstract The purpose of this project is to build empathy for people experiencing homelessness by creating of a fashion zine featuring stories and style. Challenging the prevailing, stigmatized viewpoint presented by the media, this project explores the intersection of resourcefulness, self-expression, and survival through something everyone does- get dressed. Acknowledging the current...

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Community Based Restoration

PRESERVING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES & BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL WEBSITE Abstract In urban areas, greenspacesi with thriving natural ecosystems are essential to the health of humans and other living organisms. These systems provide ecosystem services, such as stormwater mitigation, carbon sequestration, and wildlife habitat, as well as space for recreation and community gatherings. Community-based ecological restoration is...

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Emergency Urbanism

DESIGNING REFUGEE CAMPS IN JORDAN Project statement Refugee camps are not considered as long-term settlements when they are planned and built, but the reality is that these camps exist for years and years. This lack of planning contributes to the increased alienation of refugees and to camps that are not necessarily designed in the best...

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Color in Context

UTILIZING NATURAL DYES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE TEXTILES Abstract The synthetic dyes used to color our clothes and other textiles are highly toxic to ecosystems and the people who come in contact with them. Natural dyes may be an alternative to the synthetics currently used, however, there are little to no...

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