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Climate Mitigation and Social Well-Being in Urban Design

By Neha Chinwalla + Clelie Fielding

As shapers of the built environment, landscape architects and urban designers are primarily concerned with people and places. Today, we are facing a global climate crisis that threatens the health and well-being of people …

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Materials Matter: Designing the Climate Responsible City

By Constantine Chrisafis + Brianna Weekes

Building on the foundation laid by Designing  the  Climate  Responsible  City, this companion guide turns its attention to the embodied carbon locked into the materials and processes that shape streetscapes, landscapes, and other …

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Designing the Climate Responsible City

By Erin Irby + Sarah Lukins

Designing the Climate Responsible City presents actionable guidance for landscape architects, planners and urban designers seeking to mitigate greenhouse‑gas emissions and sequester carbon through their approach to shaping the built environment. The guide …

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Activating Alleys for a Lively City

Seattle’s alleys are underused and considered to be the ‘backside’ of the city. There are 456,390 SF of existing public squares, parks and pedestrian streets in downtown Seattle. However by reevaluating and reformulating our alleys we can integrate exciting, green, …

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Shifting Gears

The benefits, utility, and joys of traveling by bicycle are countless, and the relative costs affordable. Yet it has been challenging for US cities to develop the kinds of infrastructural facilities that would make cycling available and attractive to large …

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Global Green Lecture Series

Global Green is a lecture/panel series showcasing Sustainable Planning and Design in the Pacific Northwest and Denmark. Funded by the Scan Design Foundation. The themes to date have been:

Autumn 2023 “City Nature and the Nature of Cities”…

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Seattle’s Neighborhood Greenways

The City of Seattle is working to enhance transportation options in the city and Neighborhood Greenways are becoming an integral part of the process. Reducing vehicle speeds and traffic volume is necessary for Neighborhood Greenways, but by creating inviting space …

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Re-Imagining Seattle Streets

This was the challenge presented by Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), with a long connective arterial in the Magnolia neighborhood as our testing ground. This street was selected due to its exceptionally wide planting strips, its underlying water and habitat connections …

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Mapping Invitations

Did you ever come across a little spot in your neighborhood that you just found, by accident, and as you lingered, you found yourself leaning on a ledge or sitting on a bench under a tree? As time passed, you …

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Public Spaces | Public Life Studios

The Public Spaces Public Life studio in the College of Built Environments combines international study experience with multi-disciplinary collaboration on local projects in order to explore planning and design solutions for Seattle’s public realm.

Before the studio, students travel to …

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Open Space Seattle 2100

This collaborative project asked leaders from civic, environmental, business and community groups to create a comprehensive open space vision to guide Seattle’s urban development over the next 100 years. The urban watershed-based process included a city-wide design charrette with 23 …

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Adaptive Streets: Strategies for Transforming the Urban Right-of-Way

Adaptive Streets: Strategies for Transforming the Urban Right-of-Way is an illustrated handbook to inspire and guide citizens, planners and officials to re-imagine how our streets can be adapted to increase utility and delight as well as enhance human and environmental …

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Burlington at the Crossroads

In 2013, Burlington, WA—a small agricultural city located in the Skagit Valley north of Seattle—engaged an interdisciplinary team of graduate students and a faculty advisor from the University of Washington Green Futures Lab (GFL) to generate ideas for a Comprehensive …

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Regional Open Space Strategy (ROSS)

The Puget Sound basin is facing significant ecological and economic pressures, which are predicted to be further exacerbated by our rapid population growth and increasing intensity of climate change impacts. These stresses affect water quality and supply, fish, farm and …

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email: GFLab@uw.edu

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