UW Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design & Planning: Students

Current Students_________

Name & Email*	Research Interests
*all email addresses are ___@u.washington.edu
Alon Bassok abassok	Transportation in relation to equity, accessibility; land use and the environment

Andrew Bjorn abjorn	Urban environmental planning, brownfields revitalization, climate change

Jeremy Bunn turlo	1) The subject areas of geomorphology, landscape ecology, and (neo)traditional architecture & urban form. 2) The transdisciplinary problems of land transformation for sustainabiliy and the preservation of biophysical diversity in populated landscapes. 3) The importance and utility of qualitative distinctions and aesthetic perception.

Luc de Montigny ldem	Environmental behavior research and urban design 1) The use of public space by marginalized individuals; more specifically, public injection behavior among Injection Drug Users. 2) Physical activity, obesity and the built environment

Sarah Dooling sdooling	Participatory planning, land use planning, environmental planning

Joel Franklin joelpf	1) interactive dynamics between land use and transportation decisions, and the development of integrated modeling tools for policy analysis; 2) emergent properties of complex urban systems; and 3) the social welfare/distributional equity effects of transportation policies---in other words, do transportation policies have the (unintended) consequence of redistributing well-being/wealth/welfare among individuals in an urban system in ways that are particularly equitable or inequitable?

Adrienne Greve aigreve	Environmental planning and urban ecology; more specifically, how can socially and politically relevant measures of urban settlement be integrated into environmental studies and what is most appropriate basis of evaluation for the condition of urban natural systems. Dissertation Topic: Streams in an Urban Context; Accounting for Settlement Type, Pattern, and History

David Hsu dhsu2	Processes of urban growth and its associated environmental impacts, and effective environmental planning for cities

Phil Hurvitz phurvitz	Applications of GIS for the investigation of the relationship between urban structure and function and health-related behaviors. A substantial body of knowledge indicates there is a relationship between location and health; exactly how are the properties of urban environments related to such health factors as obesity, inactivity, and fast food onsumption?

Pavinee Inchompoo	Environmental planning, urban ecology, sustainable urban development

Yan Jiang yanjiang	Land cover change detection, the interaction between land use and land cover

Hyung Tai Kim jhtkim	Growth management, urban economic development

Lin Lin ll3	1) Built environment and behavior 2) China urban development

Michelle Kondo mkondo	Planning and diversity; namely identifying: 1) the challenges of accommodating and recognizing cultural difference; 2) limiting norms of current methods and practice; and 3) potential challenges to and methods for dealing with controversies resulting from explicit recognition of difference.
Brian H. Y. Lee bhylee	Transportation and land use planning, modeling, and policy analysis; public transit, walking, and bicycling; urban form and design; ethics and social equity; public health

Ming-Chun Lee mingchun	Computer aided urban planning & design, land use and transportation modeling

April Mills amills	Urban ecology, land use planning, environmental planning, landscape ecology

Seunghoon Park seunghop	Urban form, community and neighborhood design, urban design policy, and downtown redevelopment.

Belen Roca belenr	I am interested on understanding the relationship between sustainability and urban form. I aim to investigate urban sustainability in the context of the Greater Seattle Area (GSA). I propose to answer the following question: Are there urban forms on the landscape that could be considered sustainable according to a set of indicators that are spatially referenced? Although this study design is exploratory, it is based upon three somewhat loosely defined research hypotheses: 1. Urban sustainability varies at the neighborhood scale across the GSA, 2. There are areas that satisfy sustainability goals to a significant degree both individually and in combination. 3. There are recognizable aspects of urban form shared by the most sustainable areas.

Gail M. Sandlin gsandlin	Air quality,land use, environmental justice Dissertation Topic: Microscale impacts of the nexus between land use, transportation planning and air quality. When I have a life: Apiarist and large format photography (not at the same time :)

Michael Stanger	Urban form & design, telecommunications

Dong Wook Sohn sohndw	Urban form, land use, and non-motorized transportation. Dissertation topic: An analysis of the market acceptance of Smart Growth, land use policy

Ikechi Nwankwo iken	Growth Management Dissertation Topic: Growth Management & Housing Cost

Liming Wang lmwang	Environmental & socioeconomic system spatial modeling