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King County's video on UW Green Futures Lab floating wetland UW’s Green Futures Lab: Building wetlands to sustain salmon The Green Futures Lab strives to create habitat and cleaner waterways through the use of floating wetlands. Check out this great video from King County summarizing our Duwamish floating wetland project. | King County TV Read More
Birds eye view of Kirkland Google’s exit from big Seattle-area project shows fleeting relationship between tech and communities “What you’re seeing is just another recalibration of the sorts that have been going on for time immemorial between employers and communities,” said Chuck Wolfe, a multinational urbanism consultant and affiliate professor at the University of Washington. | Geek Wire Read More
Blue tarps over tents - homelessness The obvious answer everyone is ignoring The research from Gregg Colburn's new book, Homelessness is a Housing Problem, is featured in a recent article in The Atlantic. Read More
Making Healthy Places book cover. health, design Q&A: Exploring how the design of the built environment affects our health and well-being The recently published second edition of "Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Well-being, Equity, and Sustainability" explores how the design of houses, schools, workplaces, streets, parks, transportation systems, and urban form, affect our health and well-being. Read More
Exterior of Gould Hall Benjamin F. McAdoo’s lasting legacy as an architect and activist Associate Professor Tyler Sprague and senior architecture student Sierra Miles discuss the Benjamin McAdoo Research Collective, which seeks to share and cultivate appreciation for the work of Benjamin F. McAdoo, the first registered Black architect in Washington. | Seattle Times Read More
Books on shelves New faculty books: How your brain works, cycling around the world and more H. Pike Oliver, affiliate instructor of real estate at UW, and co-author Michael Stockstill new book, “Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson and The Big Plan”, talks about the history of the University of California campus and its impact on the development of the city. Read More
Gregg Colburn UW expert says the housing market is the key factor causing homelessness In this interview with KUOW, Gregg Colburn, associate professor of real estate, discusses his new book "Homelessness is a Housing Problem" and offers insight into how Seattle's homelessness crisis might be addressed. | KUOW Read More
Buildings on UW campus Partnership for equity and inclusion in design and planning schools welcomes a second cohort of early career fellows The Dean’s Equity and Inclusion Initiative, a partnership of now over two dozen U.S. schools and colleges of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, preservation, and design, welcomes a second cohort of 17 early career faculty to the scholarly development program. Read More
Row of 3 houses Homeless in America The homelessness crisis continues to get worse. Gregg Colburn, assistant professor of real estate, discusses his research on why we see variation in homelessness across U.S. cities. | The New York Times Read More