Urban Design & Planning Interdisciplinary Ph.D.

Research Seminar

Date Presentations
Jan 31 Vince Wang, Asst. Prof. in Real Estate, “The Nonprofit Path of Research Career”

2022-2023 via Zoom (see individual post for registration)

Date Presentations
Oct 11 Lamis Ashour, PhD Candidate, “A FOCUS GROUP STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON ESSENTIAL WORKERS’ COMMUTE”
Oct 25 Mingming Cai, Pre-doc Student, “Examining Commute Mode Choice of Essential Workers Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Travel Survey Data”
Nov 8
Dec 8

Date Previous Presentations Spring 2022
April 26th Prof. Marina Alberti, “Urban Resilience in an Eco-Evolutionary Perspective”
May 10th Catharina Depari (Ph.D. Student), “Traditional Ecological Practices Of Mount Merapi – Towards Panarchy-Based Resilience”
Case Study: The Pelemsari Court-Village, Sleman, Yogyakarta
May 24th Chung Ho Kim, PhD, Visiting Scholar, UW, Associate Professor, University of Seoul, “Design by Algorithm: Theory and Practice of Data-driven Urban Design
Past Presentations 2021-2022
Feb 15th Rachel Berney, PhD, Associate Professor, Mobile Cities: Examining Non-Motorized Mobility Equity in Beacon Hill, Seattle “
Jan 18th

Jan Whittington,  Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, PhD students Feiyang Sun and Siman Ning, “Impact of the Built Environment on Economic Resilience of Food and Retail Businesses during COVID-19”

Dec 7th

Xiao Shi, PhD, a recent graduate of the Urban Design and Planning Interdisciplinary PhD, “Planning for Human Wellbeing: New Research Evidence in Built Environment, Travel Behavior, and Physical Activity”

Nov 9th Jon Froehlich, Associate Professor, Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, “Project Sidewalk: Crowd+AI Tools to Map and Assess Sidewalks”
Oct 26th Prof. Michael Lindell, Institute for Hazards Mitigation Research and Planning,
“Household crisis Stockpiling at the Beginning of the COVID Pandemic”

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Date
April 13 Lamis Ashour (Ph.D. Student) – Paratransit services for people with disabilities in the Seattle region during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons for recovery
April 27 Karen Dyson, Ph.D. – Title TBA
May 11
May 25 Lan Nguyen (Ph.D. Candidate) – Topic TBA
October 13 Yiyuan Wang – Exploring Partnership between Transit Agency and Shared Mobility Company: An Incentive Program for App-Based Carpooling (info)
October 27

Christine Bae – Equity Impact of Seattle’s Light Rail Station Areas (info)

Manish Chalana – Decolonizing Historic Preservation (info)

November 10

Dan Abramson – Broadening Participation and Including Multiple Worldviews in Planning Research: its Importance for Resilience

Rachel Berney – Bending the Arc of Justice in Urban Design

December 8

Ph.D. Candidate Feiyang Sun (Prof. Jan Whittington) – Update on COVID-19 Research

January 19

Prof. Anne Moudon – COVID-19 Research Data

February 2 J.D. Tovey (Ph.D. Candidate) – Contemporary Indigenous Development Patterns
February 16 Tracy Fuentes, Ph.D. – Reconstructing Developer and Homeowner Decisions to Understand the Complex Assembly of New Residential Patches and Plant Communities
March 2 Prof. Anne Moudon & Xiao Shi (Ph.D. Candidate) – COVID-19 Further Research
March 30 Manish Chalana – Chandigarh’s Villages: Colonial Planning in Postcolonial India

 

Date Past Presentations
Oct. 22

Dorothy A. Reed, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Shuoqi Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Title: Building Functionality and Indoor Environmental Quality

Nov. 5

Michael Lindell, Emeritus Professor, Texas A&M University, Affiliate Professor, Urban Design and Planning

Title: Are Coastal Residents Prepared For A Cascadia Subduction Zone Tsunami? Results From A Survey In Three States

Nov. 19

Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC, San Diego; Co-sponsored with UW Quaternary Research Center

Title: A deep history of human adaptation and changing climate on the Eastern Tibetan plateau

Dec. 3

Jan Whittington, Associate Professor, Urban Design and Planning

Title: City budgeting and climate action

Feb. 4

Jon Froehlich, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Title: Scalable Methods to Map and Assess Sidewalks Across the World using Remote Crowdsourcing, Machine Learning, and Online Imagery

Feb. 18

John D. Landis, Crossways Professor of City & Regional Planning, U. Pennsylvania

Title: Transportation, Affordable Housing, & Poverty Disparities Among U.S. Metropolitan Areas

March 3

Dan Abramson, Associate Professor of Urban Design & Planning

Title: Community Engagement for Planning Resilience: An Asset-based, Multi-hazard-scenario Approach

April 14 Jan Whittington, Associate Professor, Urban Design & Planning
Title: COVID-19 and Infrastructure
April 28 Peter Dunn, Urban Design & Planning Ph.D. Student
Title: Mobility Apps and the Politics of Platform Urbanism
May 12

Xiao Shi, Urban Design & Planning Ph.D. Student

Title: Do poor people also walk in poor areas? Evidence from GPS tracking