How did you get into your field of study?
Growing up in Taiwan, I witnessed heat stress, summer storms, and landslides every year. Yet, it wasn’t until a visit to a tribe just before college that the real impact hit …
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Vision Zero road safety projects in Seattle are unlikely to have negative impacts on local business sales, UW study finds
Seattle is routinely listed as one of the most walkable and bike-friendly cities in the nation. The city government has committed to Vision Zero, which aims to completely eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030, and embarked on …
Student Profile: Sarah Samdin
Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
S: Certainly! My name is Sarah Samdin, and I use she/her pronouns. I’m currently based in Los Angeles, California. For my undergrad, I went to UC Davis, where I studied Environmental Policy …
Tsunami preparedness in WA
WESTPORT, Grays Harbor County — The phone call Westport had been waiting on for three years finally came in November.
City administrator Kevin Goodrich, at his desk early, was the first to get the news: The Federal Emergency Management Agency …
Global Collaboration Studying Untold Narratives About Sustainable and Equitable Urban Change
A new international research partnership aims to spark dialogue and learning through storytelling about sustainable and equitable urban development. Collaborators from five global cities have partnered to shift common practices of how stories of successful urban change are told and …
Creating eco-friendly infrastructure design: Meet Jan Whittington
“I’m exactly where I want to be.”
For associate professor of Urban Design and Planning Jan Whittington, this statement sums up her feelings about being on the faculty of a large public university, doing what she loves, with good opportunities …
CBE Community, Environment, and Planning alum encounters experiences of a lifetime during his undergraduate career
Elijah Mason stepped through the door of his second-ever UW College of Built Environments (CBE) class. He was nervous, but also excited. “I chose the course because it was a planning practicum,” explains Mason. “We were going to be doing …
Event: Planning a Resilient and Equitable Food System
This panel will describe the emerging food systems planning paradigms and how they are being infused with values of equity, social justice, and resilience. Food systems planning is a relatively new discipline; it was not until the first decade of …
How will downtowns across America change in the next decade?
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Visiting Scholar: Chung Ho Kim
As a visiting scholar in the Department of Urban Design and Planning, Chung Ho Kim has three goals: reconnect, research, and refresh.
Reconnecting to Seattle and the University
Chung Ho first visited Seattle and UW in 2005 at the recommendation …