A team of UW students, including CBE student Ziyang Liu, won 1st place and a $1000 scholarship at the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) 12th Annual Collegiate Student Paper Competition for their paper, “Threshold-Based Planning for Westport, Washington: a …
Category: Urban Design and Planning
CEP Senior, Talia Kertsman, recognized in Husky 100
Congratulations Talia, CEP Senior ’22, for being recognized as a #Husky100 student! “I hope to work at the intersection of equitable community development and education, thinking about how students and educators can co-create spaces of learning, inside and outside the …
Bothell banned cars from Main Street in response to COVID. They may never return
Branden Born, associate professor of urban design and planning, talks about how the pandemic provided cities with an opportunity to explore and experiment. | The Seattle Times…
Student Spotlight | Peter T. Dunn
We sat down with PhD candidate, Peter T. Dunn, to hear about his research within the College of Built Environments and what has made his time here as both a student and teacher successful.
Please introduce yourself.
P: I’m a …
Why are the B.C. floods so bad? Blame the wildfires, at least in part | Bob Freitag
“A few short months after the end of a devastating wildfire season, many B.C. communities are cleaning up after disastrous floods that have swept away highways, submerged homes, triggered deadly landslides, stranded hundreds of people and forced thousands …
Marina Alberti |The Benefits and Limits of Urban Tree Planting for Environmental and Human Health
Many of the world’s major cities have implemented tree planting programs based on assumed environmental and social benefits of urban forests. Recent studies have increasingly tested these assumptions and provide empirical evidence for the contributions of tree planting programs, as …
Marina Alberti | International Webinar on Urban Sustainability
Join CEDEUS (Centre of Urban Sustainable Development) of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago on March 9 at 10:00am PST for an International Webinar | “Urban Sustainability in an Eco-Evolutionary Perspective” a talk with Marina Alberti…
Manish Chalana | Upcoming Book :Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India
Associate Professor Manish Chalana has a book coming out at the end of the month:
Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India
Approaches and Challenges
Edited By Manish Chalana, Ashima Krishna
Copyright Year 2021
Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India seeks to …
Bob Mugerauer | Decision Making
Dr. Bob Mugerauer has completed work that brings to fruition much of his research conducted over the last ten years on health, and well-being. Specifically, problems concerning decision-making in the professions cover not only the environmental disciplines and practices …
Himanshu Grover | Community Resilience Handbook for Disaster Preparedness and Management
Dr. Himanshu Grover’s research lands at the intersection of land use planning, community resilience, and climate change. Dr. Grover is also the co-Director of the Institute for Hazard Mitigation and Planning at the College of Built Environments. His research emphasizes …