Emerging Research Agendas

The emerging research agendas seminars aim to define the research contribution of the Seattle School of Urban Design and Planning. Teams of faculty and students will lead these discussions with the objective to identify emerging research questions and position their research within the field. We aim to initiate discussions and generate white papers on our long-term research agendas.

2008-2009

Oct. 6 Co-evolution of People with Nature, John Marzluff
Oct. 27 The Status of The Social Contract in American Society, Hilda Blanco
Nov. 17 Should We Worry About Foxes in Henhouses? The Case of Regional Fisheries Management Councils, Craig Thomas
Dec. 1 Least Cost Control of Agricultural Nutrient Contributions to Local Waters and the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, Sergey Rabotyagov
Jan. 23 Accommodating Growth: Reality Check and the Quality Growth Alliance, Chuck Wolfe and Shawna Sherman
Feb. 6 Land cover and housing prices in the Seattle metro area, Andrew Bjorn
Feb. 13 Decisions Under Poverty: A Behavioral Perspective on the Decision Making of the Poor, Crystal Hall
Feb. 27 Now what do people know about climate change? Ann Bostrom
Mar. 6 Merging Disciplines to Improve the Quality and Scientific Power of Data Collected in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Glenn Duncan
May 15 Defining choice in the Housing Choice Voucher program: the role of the housing market constraints and household preferences in location outcomes, Martha Galvez
May 29 Neogeography, the geoweb, and volunteered geographic information: GIS 2.0 in the making?, Sarah Elwood

2007-2008

Oct. 12 Urban Ecology and Ecological Gentrification: complexity and consequences in human dominated systems, Sarah Dooling
Nov. 9 Managing the Transportation System: the clean trucks program as an example of complexity, Anne Goodchild
Nov. 16 Access to Healthy Foods: a question of money and time, Adam Drewnowski
Feb. 8 Why Science Isn't Enough; But How Complexity Theory and Scenarios Are a Big Help, Bob Mugerauer
Feb. 15 An Introduction to Relative Distribution Methods, Mark Handcock
Mar. 7 Understanding Outcomes of Collaborative Environmental Management, Clare Ryan
Apr. 25 The History of High-Tech Places, Margaret O'Mara
May 9 Partnering in Health Research, and finding the Cause of Autism: A Joint Presentation with Group Health Center for Health Studies, Jan Whittington, Paul Fishman and Ella Thompson

2006-2007

Oct. 6 Strategies and Methods Accounting For Social Fairness In Urban Environmental Planning, Don Miller
Oct. 20 Housing Research, Lynne Manzo
Nov. 3 Social Justice in Planning Research, Bob Mugerauer, Sarah Dooling and Michelle Kondo
Nov. 17 Sustainable Growth Management: The Efficacy of Mixed-use Solutions, Jim DeLisle
Dec. 1 Emerging Issues in Housing Research, Rachel Kleit
Jan. 19 Place, Culture, and Behavior from Palms to Siberia: a Sociologist Discovers Planning, Chris Campbell
Feb. 2 Measuring Neighborhood Air Pollution: A Pilot Study of Seattle's International District, Christine Bae
Feb. 16 UrbanSim: Indicators and Stakeholder Interaction, Alan Borning
Mar. 2 Spatial Choice -- old, new, and emerging connections between fisheries economics and residential choice, David Layton
Apr. 6 Creating an Emerging Research Agenda: a Junior Faculty Member's Perspective, Branden Born
Apr. 20 Global Transformation: A Strategy for Creating Global Citizens at UW, Ralph Coolman

2005-2006

Jan. 18 Food systems, scale, and "the local trap", Mark Purcell
Feb. 1 Network Theory applied to Infrastructure Systems: Strengths and Limitations, Hilda Blanco
Feb. 15 Current research directions in integrated land use and transportation modeling and planning, Paul Waddell
Mar. 1 Urban Landscapes as Emergent Phenomena of Complex Human-Natural Systems, Marina Alberti and Adrienne Greve
Apr. 5 Public Health and Urban Design, Anne Vernez-Moudon
May 3 Ecological Design, Kristina Hill and Jeff Hou

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