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 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 academic year

October 6th
Co-evolution of People with Nature
John Marzluff

October 27th
The Status of The Social Contract in American Society
Hilda Blanco

November 17th
Should We Worry About Foxes in Henhouses? The Case of Regional Fisheries Management Councils
Craig Thomas

December 1st
Least Cost Control of Agricultural Nutrient Contributions to Local Waters and the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
Sergey Rabotyagov

January 23rd
Accommodating Growth: Reality Check and the Quality Growth Alliance
Chuck Wolfe and Shawna Sherman

February 6th
Land cover and housing prices in the Seattle metro area
Andrew Bjorn

February 13th
Decisions Under Poverty: A Behavioral Perspective on the Decision Making of the Poor
Crystal Hall

February 27th
Now what do people know about climate change?
Ann Bostrom

March 6th
Merging Disciplines to Improve the Quality and Scientific Power of Data Collected in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Glenn Duncan

May 15th
Defining choice in the Housing Choice Voucher program: the role of the housing market constraints and household preferences in location outcomes
Martha Galvez

May 29th
Neogeography, the geoweb, and volunteered geographic information: GIS 2.0 in the making?
Sarah Elwood

2007-2008 academic year:

October 12th
Urban Ecology and Ecological Gentrification: complexity and consequences in human dominated systems
Sarah Dooling

November 9th
Managing the Transportation System: the clean trucks program as an example of complexity
Anne Goodchild

November 16th
Access to Healthy Foods: a question of money and time
Adam Drewnowski

February 8th
Why Science Isn't Enough; But How Complexity Theory and Scenarios Are a Big Help
Bob Mugerauer

February 15th
An Introduction to Relative Distribution Methods
Mark Handcock

March 7th
Understanding Outcomes of Collaborative Environmental Management
Clare Ryan

April 25th
The History of High-Tech Places
Margaret O’Mara

May 9th
Partnering in Health Research, and finding the Cause of Autism: A Joint Presentation with Group Health Center for Health Studies
Jan Whittington, Paul Fishman

2006-2007 academic year

October 6th
Strategies and Methods Accounting For Social Fairness In Urban Environmental Planning
Don Miller

October 20th
Housing Research
Lynne Manzo

November 3rd
Social Justice in Planning Research
Bob Mugerauer, Sarah Dooling, and Michelle Kondo

November 17th
Sustainable Growth Management: The Efficacy of Mixed-use Solutions
Jim DeLisle

December 1st
Emerging Issues in Housing Research
Rachel Kleit

January 19th
Place, Culture, and Behavior from Palms to Siberia: a Sociologist Discovers Planning
Chris Campbell

February 2nd
Measuring Neighborhood Air Pollution: A Pilot Study of Seattle’s International District
Christine Bae

February 16th
UrbanSim: Indicators and Stakeholder Interaction
Alan Borning

March 2nd
Spatial Choice -- old, new, and emerging connections between fisheries economics and residential choice
David Layton

April 6th
Creating an Emerging Research Agenda: a Junior Faculty Member's Perspective
Branden Born

April 20th
Global Transformation: A Strategy for Creating Global Citizens at UW
Ralph Coolman