SUMMER 2015 SEATTLE STUDIO URBDP 508/498
URBDP 508/498 is open to graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in urban design, planning, architecture, and landscape architecture to work on multi-disciplinary teams to solve real-world planning and urban design challenges in Western Washington. This exciting course will offer 5 undergraduate or 3 graduate-level credits.
SUMMER 2015: SESSION A and/or B
Summer A Term: June 22 to July 22
Summer B Term: July 23 to August 21
Priority Registration: April 13 to May 15
PLANNING FOR CAMPUS HOUSING
This project will provide students with an outstanding opportunity to work with the region’s largest technology company, Microsoft. The course will examine various options for developing housing on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. This work includes research and data analysis; financial modeling; site design; pedestrian connectivity; and land use planning.
PLANNING FOR CAMPUS HOUSING
This project will continue the work students are undertaking in Spring Quarter, 2015. Specifically, students will develop strategic initiatives that the City of Mukilteo will consider in the formulation of alternate land use and zoning scenarios for the sub-area. These initiatives will be used to increase property and sales tax base in the sub-area, by creating developer-friendly conditions for an attractive, reinvigorated built environment. Contemporaneously, the initiatives are intended to promote urban connectivity and to elevate the quality of life in and around the sub-area.
MUKILTEO SUB-AREA PLANNING TTOD AFFORDABLE HOUSING
This project will support a non-profit organization known as “Thurston Transit Oriented Development” (TTOD) in the development of affordable housing in the City of Olympia. The project site is well served by public transportation and will be easily accessible to residents who are unable or uninterested in automobile ownership. Students will create various design scenarios that include mixed use elements of housing, retail, common space, public amenities and environmental protection.
For additional information please contact the course instructor:
Edward D. Blum, AICP blumedw@uw.edu