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Faculty and staff with the Livable City Year program pose with the award for Bellevue

Bellevue named national “Outstanding Community Partner” for Livable City Year Partnership In a partnership with the University of Washington expected to generate out-of-the-box solutions to civic challenges, the City of Bellevue has been named Outstanding Community Partner by a national group of universities. All 31 schools in the Educational Partnerships for … Read More

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Designing for Resilience How a design studio at the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments engaged students in defining strategies for a community to evolve amidst disruptions. Seattle is one of the fastest growing cities in the country– a hub of innovation … Read More

Renee Cheng

Building equity: A talk with Renée Cheng, new dean of the UW College of Built Environments Renée Cheng comes to the University of Washington from the University of Minnesota, where she was professor and associate dean of its school of architecture and design. A licensed architect, Cheng is a leader in the American Institute of Architects … Read More

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$250,000 gift from NBBJ to the UW College of Built Environments will advance applied research in the built environment NBBJ – a global architecture, planning and design firm – will donate a quarter of a million dollars to establish a ground breaking partnership with the University of Washington’s (UW) College of Built Environments (CBE). The gift will forge multiple … Read More

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‘Carbon accountability’: UW architecture professor Kate Simonen sees progress in work to reduce embodied carbon in construction materials “We acknowledge that we hold this world in trust and recognize the immediate threat climate change and its impacts pose to current and future generations,” reads a statement signed this fall by more than 100 construction-related companies and nonprofits. Kate … Read More

Parks help cities – but only if people use them Written by Thaisa Way, faculty director of Urban@UW and Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture in the College of Built Environments. In cities, access to parks is strongly linked with better health for both people and neighborhoods. Children … Read More

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Valuing older buildings: Architecture professor’s book argues for reuse rather than wrecking ball In her new book, Kathryn Rogers Merlino, University of Washington associate professor of architecture, argues for the environmental benefit of reusing buildings rather than tearing them down and building anew. “I was trained as both an architect and architectural … Read More

Landscape Architecture Foundation Perspectives: Jeffrey Hou Jeffrey Hou, ASLA is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Washington. There, his work and research focus on issues of social and environmental justice including design activism, public space and democracy, and engagement of marginalized groups … Read More

Students in Bellevue, WA

KUOW covers launch of Livable City Year’s partnership with Bellevue Every year, students at the UW study a city and help that city with its biggest problems. This year, they’ll study Bellevue. Running a city like Bellevue, a person can get consumed by the problems of the day. “Our staff … Read More