Lynne Catherine Manzo - University of Washington

Lynne C. Manzo
Dept of Landscape Architecture
Box 355734, Gould Hall
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-5734
206-616-8697
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Environmental Psychology. 1994. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Dissertation: Relationships to Non-Residential Places: Towards a Reconceptualization of Attachment
to Place.
M. Phil. 1990. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
M.A.
Psychology. 1988. Hunter College, City University of New York
B.A.
Psychology. 1985. Douglass College, Rutgers University. magna cum laude with Highest
Honors
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
9/’07 – present
Associate Professor, Dept of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
2012 – present
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington
2001 – present
Affiliate Faculty, PhD Program in the Built Environment
Affiliate Faculty, Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design & Planning
2001 – 2007
Assistant Professor, Dept of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
1994 - 2001
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Social Sciences, LaGuardia Community College, City
University of New York.
Taught broad range of topics in psychology, including Environmental Psychology,
Introductory Psychology and Urban Studies.
1999 - 2000
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family and Consumer Studies, Univ. of Utah.
Taught Environment and Behavior, Gender, Race, Class & the Physical Environment,
and Home and Community Environments to undergraduates in psychology, architecture,
ethnic studies and urban studies.
1989 - 1990
Adjunct Professor, Dept of Social Science, Lehman College, CUNY.
Taught Environmental Psychology, Theories of Personality and Introduction to
Psychology.
1988
Adjunct Professor, The New School, Hofstra University. Hempstead, NY
Taught advanced seminar on Gender and the Environment.
CONSULTING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011 – present
Co-Principal Investigator, Social Impact Assessment with Qatar University
Launched a 2-year study of the social impacts rapid urbanization and hi-rise
transformation in the city of Doha Qatar. (with Qatar University, Dr Al Ghanim).
2009 – 2013
Co-Principal Investigator, Bremerton Housing Authority
Launched a 5-year study of the impacts of the HOPE VI redevelopment of a
public housing site into a mixed income development. (with Rachel Kleit).
2003 – 2005
Principal Investigator, King County Housing Authority
Evaluator for the HOPE VI redevelopment of King County Housing Authority’s
public housing site. (with Rachel Garshick Kleit).
1996 – 1999
Director of Training, Jackson Heights Community Development Corp.
Developed local economic development programs, conducted youth internships,
coordinated outreach efforts, and built critical community-based collaborations
for community improvement.
1995 – 1996
Research Consultant/Writer, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian
Institute.
Researched and wrote City of Neighborhoods: Bridging Schools and
Communities, a design education program that incorporates design into the K-12
curriculum.
1995
Conference Organizer, Re-Visioning Design and Technology,
The City University of New York Graduate Center.
Organized and hosted a conference on feminist projects for transforming
environments using innovations in design and technology.
1994 – 1995
Research Consultant, Pathways to Housing.
Conducted extensive research on funding and developed research programs
aimed at improving housing policy opportunities and providing social services
for homeless people.
1987 – 1995
Research Consultant, Office of Research, Evaluation & Assessment,
New York City Public Schools.
Coordinated evaluations of city-wide educational and social service program.
Extensive experience in all aspects of research & evaluation, including research
design, survey development, and report writing.
1987 – 1989
Co-Founder/Researcher, Housing Environments Research Group,
The City University of New York Graduate Center.
Co-founded housing research group working with city agencies. Developed
funded projects to study and assist low-income, cooperative housing initiatives.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Manzo, L. C. and Devine-Wright, P. (forthcoming Aug 2013). Place Attachment: Advances in
Theory, Methods and Applications. London: Routledge.
Mugerauer, R. and Manzo, L. C. (2008). Environmental Dilemmas: Ethical Decision Making. New
York: Lexington Press.
Book Chapters
Manzo, L. C. (2013). ‘We are the Fruit Bowl:’ Place, Cultural Identity and Social Ties among Immigrant
Residents in Public Housing.” In J. Hou (ed.). Transcultural Cities: Border Crossing and
Placemaking. New York: Routledge.
Manzo, L. C. (2011). “Exploring the Implicit Assumptions of the City: Reflections of an Environmental
Psychologist.’ In M. Itkonen and G. Backhaus (ed) Hyperborean Wind: Reflections on Design
and the City.
Manzo, L. C. (2011). “Recognizing the Lived Experience of Place: Challenges to Genuine
Participation in Redeveloping Public Housing Communities.” In S. Sutton and S. Kemp (eds.).
The Paradox of Urban Space: Inequity and Transformation in Marginalized Communities. NY:
Palgrave MacMillan.
Manzo, L. C. (2008). “Experience of Displacement on Sense of Place and Well Being.” In Eyles, J. and
Williams, A. (eds.). Sense of Place, Health and Quality of Life. London: Ashgate Publishing.
Manzo, L.C. and Brightbill, N. (2008). “Toward a Participatory Ethics.” In S. Kindon, R. Pain and M.
Kesby (eds.). Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People,
Participation and Place. London: Routledge.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Kleit, R. and Manzo, L.C. (forthcoming 2013). The Immigrant Experience of Public Housing
Redevelopment. Geography Research Forum (Special Issue on public housing scheduled for
Volume 33)
Manzo, L.C., Kleit, R. G. and Couch, D. (2008). Moving Once is Like Having your House on Fire Three
Times: The Experience of Place and Displacement Among Residents of a Public Housing Site.
Urban Studies, 45(9), 1855-1878.
Abramson, D., Manzo, L and Hou, J. (2006). From Ethnic Enclave to Multi-ethnic Translocal
Community: Contested Identities and Community Planning in Seattle’s Chinatown-International
District. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 23(4), 341-364.
Kleit, R. G. and Manzo, L. (2006). To Move or Not to Move: Relationships to Place and Relocation
Choices in HOPE VI. Housing Policy Debate, 17(2), 271-308.
Manzo, L. and Perkins, D. (2006). Finding Common Ground: The Importance of Place Attachment to
Community Participation and Development. Journal of Planning Literature, 20(4), 335-350.
Manzo, L. (2005). Book Review: “Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three
Public Neighborhoods” by Lawrence Vale. Journal of Architectural Planning and Research,
22(1), 84-86.
Manzo, L. (2005). For Better or Worse: Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Place Meaning. Journal
of Environmental Psychology, 25(1), 67-86.
Manzo, L. (2003). Beyond House and Haven: Toward a Revisioning of Place Attachment. Journal of
Environmental Psychology, 23(1), 47-61.
Perkins, D., Manzo, L., Nation, M. (2000). Mindwalking through the Ecology of Family, Neighborhood
and Community Development: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Opportunities. Population and
Environmental Psychology Bulletin, 26(3), 1-3.
Manzo, L. and Rivlin, L. (1988). “Homeless Children in New York City: A View from the Twentieth
Century.” Children’s Environment Quarterly, 5(1), 26-33.
Manzo, L.C. and Weinstein, N.G. (1987). “Behavioral Commitment to Environmental Protection.”
Environment and Behavior, 19(6), 673-694.
Other Peer Reviewed Published Articles and Abstracts
Manzo, L. (2011). ‘We are the Fruit Bowl:’ Place, Cultural Identity and Social Ties among Immigrant
Residents in Public Housing.” In Proceedings of the Transcultural Cities Symposium, February
2011, Seattle WA.
Kleit,R. Manzo, L. and J. Cover. (2011). “The Short-term Effects of Involuntary Relocation on
Neighborhood Quality, Housing Instability and Household Well-Being. Invited peer-reviewed
paper at specialty Conference on Neighbourhood Restructuring & Resident Relocation, Delft,
The Netherlands, November 4-5, 2010.
Manzo, L. (2008). “Understanding Human Relationships to Place and their Significance for Outdoor
Recreation and Tourism.” In Kruger, L.E., Hall, T. and Stiefel, M. Tech. eds. 2008.
Understanding concepts of place as applied in recreation research and management.
Gen.Tech.Rep. PNW-GTR-744. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Pacific Northwest Research Station.
Manzo, L. (2001). “The Role of Place Attachment and Sense of Place in Community Development and
Participation.” In Edge, M. (Ed.). Old World/New Ideas: Environmental and Cultural Change and
Tradition in a Shrinking World. Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association,
p. 224.
Manzo, L. (2001). A Sense of Place and Place Attachment: Redefining Citizen Participation and
Community Action. In the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Urban Affairs
Association.
Barnes, C. Francis, M. Manzo, L. & Cooper Marcus, C. (1994). Restorative Environments in People’s
Lives. In the Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Conference of the Environmental Design
Research Association.
Manzo, L. (1990). “The Crystal Palace as a Manifestation of Hubris vs. Angst in the Late Nineteenth
Century.” In Culture, Space, History. Vol. II, pps. 329-338. Ankara, Turkey: The Faculty of
Architecture Press.
Manzo, L. and Wolfe, M. (1990). “The Social Production of Built Forms and Environmental Settings.”
In Culture, Space, History. Vol. II, pps. 303-313. Ankara, Turkey: The Faculty of Architecture
Press.
Technical Reports to Public Agencies
Manzo, L. C. Kleit, R.G., Dugdale, G. and Kreigh, J. (2013). HOPE VI Redevelopment of Westpark
Final Evaluation Report: Year IV. Report Submitted to the Bremerton Housing Authority and the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Kleit, R. G. and Manzo, L.C. (2012). HOPE VI Redevelopment of Westpark Evaluation Report Year III.
Report Submitted to the Bremerton Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
Kleit, R. G. Manzo, L. Cover, J. and C. Morgan-Cross. (2011). “HOPE VI Redevelopment of Westpark
Evaluation Report: Year II.” Report Submitted to the Bremerton Housing Authority and the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Kleit, R. G. Manzo, L. Cover, J. and S. Danna. (2010). “HOPE VI Redevelopment of Westpark
Evaluation Report: Year I.” Report Submitted to the Bremerton Housing Authority and the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Manzo, L., l. Batten, L. Burke, D. Bramer, Y. Chiu, B. Gearheart, D. Goldy, J. Hampton, J.
Mathews, J. Monez, B. Monwai, K. Park, L. Tang, and M. Waller. (2010). “A Parks
Evaluation Toolkit: Strategies for a Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Seattle Parks.”
Report Submitted to the Seattle Parks Foundation.
Manzo, L., Kleit, R. G. and Couch, D. (2005). “Park Lake Homes Baseline and Interim HOPE VI
Evaluation Report.” Report Submitted to the King County Housing Authority and the U.S. Dept
of Housing and Urban Development.
Manzo, L., Bogert, P., Alduenda, E., Bidwell, M., Higbee, E., Lyons, M., Russo, M., Sheetz, A., Smith, M.
L., Sullivan, J., Suzuki, M. and Shou, G. (2005). “Affordable Housing and the Communities of the
Yakima Valley.” HUD Community Futures Program Research Report.
Walker, D. and Manzo, L. (2005). Creating Affordable Housing in the Yakima Valley: Activity Report
Year I. Report to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Project # COPCWA-03-004.
Walker, D. and Manzo, L. (2005). Creating Affordable Housing in the Yakima Valley: Semi-Annual
Progress Report Year II. Report to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on
Project # COPC-WA-03-004.
Manzo, L., Bogert, P., Billings, K., Dalton, B., Hodgin, A. Jackman, R., Mulica, T., Tremain, M. and
Singh, A. (2004). Community Design through Action Research: A Beginning Exploration of
Farmworker Housing Issues in the Yakima Valley, WA.
INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
Public Housing Redevelopment in the Pacific Northwest – April 16, 2012
Invited lecture to Mithun design firm, downtown Seattle, WA
The Role of Place and Place Meaning for Social Work Practice
Invited lecture to the Univ of Washington’s School of Social Work – April 2, 2012
Experience of Place and Community – March 18-20, 2011. Two-day course to Environmental
Psychology graduate students and public lecture at the University of Warsaw, Warsaw POLAND
Public Housing Redevelopment in the Pacific Northwest. February 17, 2011. Colloquium in the Built
Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
The role of Environmental Psychology for Landscape Architecture and Design - September 2010
Two guest lectures at the Beijing Forestry University, Beijing CHINA
Individual and Collective Meanings of Place – Lessons for Social Work Scholarship and Practice
Guest talk in Social Work graduate seminar, “People, Place, Equity: Spatial Perspectives on
Human Behavior in the Social Environment” – April 14, 2010.
Engaging Citizens to Improve Multicultural Neighborhoods, April 20, 2010.
Guest talk in UW Evans School of Public Affairs graduate seminar, “Community Engagement
and Urban Governance”
The Experience of Place and Displacement in HOPE VI Sites in the Pacific Northwest, March 2010
Guest talk in Built Environment (BE) Lab on Yesler Terrace Public Housing Site
The Role of Environmental Psychology for the Design and Planning Professions, Jan 13, 2009
City of Seattle, Dept of Planning and Development
Why Mix Incomes? Assessing Outcomes from the Research, October, 2008
American Institute of Architects Conference on Innovations in Affordable Housing, Phoenix,
Arizona Engaging in Ethical Practice, August 2008
Swift and Company, Design Firm in Seattle, WA,
Public Interview with Clare Cooper Marcus
NBBJ Design Firm, Seattle WA, April 2008
The Experience of Place and Displacement on Sense of Place and Well Being, June 2007
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Place Meaning, Cultural Identity and Neighborhood Revitalization in Seattle's Chinatown-International
District, January 27, 2006
PhD Program Colloquium, Dept of Geography, University of Washington
Publishing Strategies and Processes, February 23, 2006 (with Jeffrey Ochsner & Vikram Prakash)
College-wide PhD in the Built Environment Colloquium Series
Social Sustainability in HOPE VI, May 12, 2005
College-wide PhD in the Built Environment Colloquium Series
Understanding People-Place Relationships, May 6, 2004
College-wide PhD in the Built Environment Colloquium Series
The Use and Meaning of Public Space: An Environmental Psychology Perspective.
September 30, 2004. Talk presented to Seattle design firm GGLO
To Move or Not to Move: Determinants of Resident Relocation Choices in HOPE VI
October 16, 2003. College-wide PhD in the Built Environment Colloquium Series
Sense of Place and Place Meaning in Recreation. April 29, 2004
Sense of Place and Public Land Management Conference, Portland, OR
Urban Ethnic Landscapes in Post-Modern Cities, March 14, 2003
Talk on Seattle’s Chinatown/International District as part of a University-wide panel discussion,
sponsored by the Dept of Landscape Architecture
The Meanings and Uses of Public Space and Public Art, January 18, 2002
Invited lecture to Public Art Studio, a joint course with the School of Art that is part of the UW
“Tools for Transformation” interdisciplinary public art curriculum.
Community-based Research Techniques for Participatory Design, April 8, 2002
Invited lecture to Landscape Architecture Community Design Studio
Conference Papers and Presentations
The Politics and Ethics of Qualitative Research
Annual conference of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), June 1, 2012.
Pain of Osteoarthritis in Women: Environment Research
Grace A. Kline, Barbara B. Cochrane, and Lynne Manzo. Presented at the Western Institute of
Nursing Conference, April 19, 2012; Portland, OR
Walking a Tightrope: Refugees, Immigrants and Public Housing Redevelopment
Co-authored R. Kleit Urban Affairs Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 21, 2012.
Making Sense of Forced Relocation: How Pre-relocation Relationships to Place Shape Residents’
Feelings about their New Neighborhoods.
Co-authored with J Cover and R. Kleit. Urban Affairs Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
March 16–19, 2011.
“We are the Fruitbowl:” Place, Cultural Identity and Social Ties among Immigrant Residents in Public
Housing. Transcultural Cities Symposium. University of Washington, Seattle WA, Feb 1113,2011.
The Short-term Effects of Involuntary Relocation on Neighborhood Quality, Housing Instability and
Household Well-Being. Co-authored with R. Kleit and J. Cover. Invited peer-reviewed paper at
specialty Conference on Neighbourhood Restructuring & Resident Relocation, Delft, The
Netherlands, November 4-5, 2010
Toward a Legacy of Transdisciplinarity: What Environmental Psychology and Landscape Architecture
can Learn from Each Other
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Maastrich, The Netherlands, May 14, 2010
Expanding Views of Multigenerational Families and their Housing
Urban Affairs Association – Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2010
Dispersal: Critical Voices (invited as a panelist on discussion of mixed income housing strategies)
Urban Affairs Association – Chicago, Illinois, March 2009
Beyond the Codes: An Expanded Framework for Ethical Practice
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture – Tuscon, Arizona, January, 2009
Toward an Ethical Framework for Participatory Research. August 2007. Presented at the annual
conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Penn State University.
Exploring the Ethical Dimensions of Participatory Research and Design, June 2007, the annual
conference of the Environmental Design Research Association, Sacramento, CA.
People in Place: Exploring Meaning, Identity and Inequity in the Lived Experience of Place. April, 2006.
Place Matters, the inaugural event of the UW Diversity Research Institute, Seattle WA.
‘We are the Fruit Bowl’: Place, Cultural Identity and Social Ties among Immigrant Residents of a
HOPE VI Public Housing Site, April 2006.
Urban Affairs Association, Seattle, WA
The Politics of Participation: Negotiating Ethics. March 2006
Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL.
Constructed Identities and Community Design in the Urban Ethnic Landscape. September 2005
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Athens, GA.
Multicultural Community Planning in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. May 2005
Environmental Design Research Association, Vancouver, BC, CANADA (with Daniel
Abramson, Dept of Urban Design and Planning)
Social Sustainability in HOPE VI: The Immigrant Experience. April 2005
Urban Affairs Association, Salt Lake City, UT
Negotiating Power, Agency and Participation in the Public Housing Redevelopment Process. May 2004.
Environmental Design Research Association, Alburquerque, NM
Immigrants’ Experience of a Community in Transition. May 2004
Environmental Design Research Association, Alburquerque, NM
Top-down or Bottom-up Participation?: Exploring Participation in the Context of HOPE VI. September
2004. Democratic Design in the Pacific Rim, Seattle WA
Contested Identities and Urban Revitalization in Seattle’s Chinatown/International District. September
2003. Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Charleston, SC
Contested Identities and Urban Revitalization: Seattle’s Chinatown/International District in Transition.
July 2003. Community Development Society, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Contested Identities and Community Space: Seattle’s Chinatown/International District in Transition.
May 2003. Environmental Design Research Association, Minneapolis, MN
To Move or Not to Move: Determinants of Resident Relocation Choices in HOPE VI. July 2003 Joint
Congress of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Association of European
Schools of Planning, Leuven BELGUIM
To Move or Not to Move: Resident Dilemmas in HOPE VI. November 2002
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Baltimore, MD
(with Rachel Kleit, Evans School of Public Affairs)
Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Protocols, and Fear of Erasure: Planning for a Multi-ethnic Community in
Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. November 2002. Association of Collegiate Schools
of Planning, Baltimore, MD (with Daniel Abramson and Jeff Hou)
The New Terra Incognita: Understanding Identity, Meaning and Public Space. September 2002. Council
of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Syracuse, NY
Exploring Terra Incognita: Transformations of Identity and Urban Space in a Radically Changing World.
May 2002. Environmental Design Research Association, Philadelphia, PA
High Point: A Case Study of a West Seattle Neighborhood. May 2002
Environmental Design Research Association, Philadelphia, PA
Neighborhoods as Common Ground: The Contribution of Place Attachment to Community Participation.
July 2001. Environmental Design Research Association, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
The Role of Place Attachment and Sense of Place in Community Development and Participation. June 2001.
Society for Community Research and Action, Atlanta, GA
A Sense of Place and Place Attachment: Redefining Citizen Participation and Community Action. April,
2001. Urban Affairs Association, Detroit, MI
Place Identity Revisited: Are There Lessons Still Unlearned? May 1998
Place Identity Conference, New York, NY.
Contested Public Space: Notes from a New York City Neighborhood. March 1998
Environmental Design Research Association, St Louis, MS
Looking and Learning: Using Local Neighborhoods for Environmental Education. March 1997
Environmental Design Research Association, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA
A City of Neighborhoods: Bridging Schools and Communities. May 1996
Environmental Design Research Association, Salt Lake City, UT
Restorative Environments in People’s Lives. June 1994
Environmental Design Research Association, San Antonio, TX
Environmental Autobiography and Places of Trauma: Lessons of the Unspoken. March 1993
Environmental Design Research Association, Chicago, IL
Feminist Perspectives on Environmental Design Research: What Does the Future Hold? May 1992.
Environmental Design Research Association, Boulder, CO
The Social Production of Built Forms, Environmental Settings and Person-Environment Relationships.
June 1991. International Association for People and Their Physical Surroundings, Ankara,
TURKEY
The Social Production of the Crystal Palace. May 1990
Environmental Design Research Association, Champaign-Urbana, IL
Gender Issues in Housing: Changing Paradigms for Research and Policy. May 1989
Environmental Design Research Association, Black Mountain, NC
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
$506,000
From the National Priorities Research Program of the Qatar National Research Fund for a
grant to fund a 2-year study of the Social Impact Assessment of Intensive Development:
High-Rise Life in Urban Qatar (ongoing 2011-2014).
$369,000
From the Bremerton Housing Authority for a HOPE VI Evaluation, Jan 2009-2013
Contract for a 4-year research project to examine the impacts of the redevelopment of a
public housing site into a mixed income community. Study will track original residents
who were relocated and examine impacts on both the receiving and surrounding
communities.
$396,994
HUD Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) Grant
From the U.S. Housing and Urban Development, 2003-2006.
For the implementation of a Community Outreach Partnership Center Program. This 3year group project focuses on housing needs of farmworkers and low income residents in
Washington State’s Yakima Valley. This project is a collaboration with the UW Dept of
Architecture.
$125,154
From King County Housing Authority, 2002-2005.
For evaluation research project of the redevelopment of a public housing site in HUD’s
HOPE VI program. Co-Principal Investigator: Rachel Kleit, UW School of Public
Affairs.
$33,327
Royalty Research Fund, University of Washington, 2001
For research project “Seattle’s Chinatown-International District: Transnational
Communities, Local Identities and the Making of Place.” Co-Principal Investigators: Dan
Abramson, Planning; and Jeffrey Hou, Landscape Architecture
$1,500
$350,000
Environmental Design Research Association, 2000
For international professional conference event
New York State Department of Labor for the Jackson Heights C.D.C., 1997-1999
Secured state grant to run a 3-year local economic development program in New York
City.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Outstanding Communication Award – 2012
UW College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Dean’s Award for Completed Work – 2008
UW College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Dean’s Award for Completed Work – 2005
UW College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Dean’s Award for Work-in-Progress – 2004
Stanton-Anthony Scholar – 1993
Helena Rubinstein Research Foundation Scholar – 1990
Phi Beta Kappa – since 1985
SERVICE
I. Academic Service
A. National Service
April 2013 – present Board of Editors for the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research (JAPR)
Jan 2008 – present
Person-Environment Relationships, Track Chair for the national organization,
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).
June 2011 – June 2012 Conference co-Chair for the 2012 annual conference of the Environmental
Design Research Association (EDRA) held in Seattle WA May 30-June 2, 2012
Reviewer for:
Child and Family Social Work
Design Studies
Emotion, Space and Society
Environment and Behavior
Environmental Values
Journal of Architecture and Planning Research
Journal of Planning Education and Research
Journal of Environmental Management
Journal of Environmental Psychology
Journal of Prevention and Intervention
Journal of Urban Affairs
Landscape Journal
Landscape Research
Leisure Studies
Society and Natural Resources
Urban Affairs Review
Urban Geography
Urban Studies
Sage Publications Textbook Division.
B. University-wide Service
2012 – present
Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program Advisory Board
2012 – present
Faculty Senate Chair Advisory Committee / Cabinet
2002 – present
Graduate School Representative for doctoral students across the university including
the School of Information, the College of Forest Resources and the School of Nursing
2008 – 2012
Representative, University of Washington Faculty Senate
6/2007 – 6/2008 Member, UW Graduate School Council. Representative for Group 1A – Division of
Arts and Humanities
2002
Developed a new Course Evaluation Form (K) for use in evaluating studio and other
creative project courses. Adopted by the UW Office of Educational Assessment as a
new university-wide teaching assessment tool.
C. College Service
Oct ’11 – 2012
CBE Strategic Planning Committee
Jan 09-May 09
Chair Search Committee for Dept of Landscape Architecture
Spring 2008
Review Committee for endowed positions in the College of Architecture &
Urban Planning
Autumn 2007
Review Committee for the SEEDs Scholarship in the College of Architecture and
Urban Planning
2002 – 2003
Member of faculty team that developed the History, Theory and Representation
curriculum area for the college-wide PhD Program in the Built Environment
D. Departmental Service
2007 – 2010
Curriculum Committee
2005 – 2007
Developed Strategic Plan for the Dept. of Landscape Architecture (with Julie Johnson)
II. Professional Service
2002- 2005
Community Task Force, King County Housing Authority
For Park Lake Homes HOPE VI redevelopment.
2001- 2006
Urban Design Community Advisory Board
InterIm International District Community Development Association.
For the revitalization plans for Seattle’s Chinatown/International District
1998 - 2001
Board of Directors, Environmental Design Research Association
Board member of international professional association. Voted as Vice-Chair in 2000.
1992 - 1994
Co-Chair, Women and Environments Network, Environmental Design Research
Association. (with Kristen Day, UC-Irvine)
Ran national network of social scientists and designers focused on feminist scholarship,
gender and diversity.
III. Community Service
2006
Chinatown-International District Research Project Phase II (with Dan Abramson, Dept
of Urban Design & Planning)
Collaboration with the International District Housing Alliance – W.I.L.D. Youth
Program, and the South Downtown Foundation (Becki Frestedt)
2003 – 2006
Yakima Farmworker Housing Research Project, providing research and design services
to non-profit community organizations involved in the provision of affordable housing
in the Yakima Valley, WA.
2003-4 Clients: Diocese of Yakima Housing Services, Mabton FOCUS School
2005-6 Client: Yakama Nation Housing Authority
2004
Studio Project: Designs for Therapeutic Gardens (with Daniel Winterbottom)
Staff interviews conducted and schematic designs provided for 3 clients: UW Medical
Center, Child Haven and the Seattle Playgarden Project
2003
Participated in a series of public meetings with the Design Commission and Seattle
Housing Authority on the redevelopment of the High Pt. Public Housing Garden
Community
2002
Pro-bono consultations with Seattle branch of the Hotel Workers’ Union, to conduct a
social impact assessment of increased density in downtown on low-income workers
and residents.
AFFILIATIONS
Environmental Design Research Association
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
Society for Community Research and Action, Division 27, American Psychological Association
Urban Affairs Association
New York Municipal Art Society, Fellow
Invited Member – Center for Environmental, Education, and Design Studies
COURSES TAUGHT
Lecture Courses
Introduction to Environmental Psychology (undergraduate & graduate)
The Human Experience of Place (undergraduate & graduate)
Gender, Race, Class and the Physical Environment (undergraduate)
Home and Community Environments (undergraduate)
Seminars
Gender and the Environment (undergraduate)
Research Methods for Community Design (graduate)
Action Research (graduate)
Ethics and the Environment (graduate)
Thesis Seminar (graduate)
Scholarship and Inquiry in Landscape Architecture (graduate)
The Politics of Public Space (graduate)
The City and Social Justice (graduate)
Decoding the Landscape – microseminar on Dolores Hayden and Anne Spirn
Design Studios
Introduction to Site Planning & Design (undergraduate & graduate)
Site Design in the Urban Context (undergraduate & graduate)
Cultural Landscapes Studio (undergraduate)
Landscape Planning & Urban Design (graduate)
STUDENT ADVISEMENT
Dissertation Committees:
Maria Rodriguez – PhD Program in Social Work – Chair (ongoing)
“Foreclosure Management and Latino Households in Seattle’
Julie Kreigh – PhD Program in the Built Environment – Chair (ongoing)
“Affordable and Sustainable Housing”
Sara Green – PhD Program in Social Work (ongoing)
“Wilderness Retreat Programs: Therapeutic Landscapes for Military Families”
Dana Prince – PhD Program in Social Work (ongoing)
“Who Will I be?: Place, identity and Future Self Concept”
Shannon K. Tyman – PhD in the Built Environment (ongoing)
“The Political Ecology of Food & Alternative Food Movements”
Jeremy Bunn – PhD, Program on the Environment (ongoing)
Michael Hodges – PhD Program in English – GSR (ongoing)
“The Role of Place in Southern Literature
Karen Hope Bancroft – PhD Program in Social Work (ongoing)
“Pushing Aside, Pushing Out: A Socio-Spatial Analysis of the Double Marginalization of Chinese
Immigrants and White Prostitutes in the US West from 1870-1920”
Peyina Lin – PhD Program in Information Science, The Information School – GSR (ongoing)
“Channeling Friendships across Social Types via Mediated Communication and School Clubs”
Grace Kline – PhD Program in Nursing (2012)
“Pain of Osteoarthritis in Women: Environmental Research”
Seunghoon Park – Interdisciplinary PhD Program (2011)
“Measuring Urban Form Characteristics of Safer Neighborhoods”
Michelle Kondo – Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design & Planning
“Planning and Diversity in White Center, WA” (2008)
Master’s Thesis Committees:
YingJu Yeh – MLA (ongoing)
“Culturally Responsive Design of Hing Hay Park”
Ximena Bustamante – MLA (ongoing)
“Asset Based Design: Learning from Farmworker Housing Communities”
VeraEve Giampietro – MLA and MUP, Committee Chair (ongoing)
“Socially Responsive Design for a School Ground in Palestine”
Virginia Werner – MLA and MUP, (ongoing)
“Planning for Self-Organized Homeless Campes: Policy, Community Relations and Locational Process”
Eve Rickenbaker _ M.S. in Forest Resources (ongoing)
Bringing People in to the Arboretum: Study of Awareness & Use of the Space
Easton Branam – MLA Committee Chair (2012)
“Spanning the Rural Urban Divide: Toward an Expanded Theory of Landscape Architecture”
Andrea Slusser – MLA (2012)
“Transmission Lines in Wildland Landscapes: Gauging Visual Impact among Casual Observers”
Breanne Gearheart – MLA Committee Chair (2011)
“Re-Imagining Place; Art based Place-making in Seattle’s Public Spaces”
Brian Fabella – MLA Committee Chair (2011)
“Materia Fluxus: Dialog and Materials in the Built Environment”
Jeannine Matthews – MLA (2011)
“Aquattractions: Connections to Water in the Urban Public Space”
Erin Berg – MLA Committee Chair (2010)
“Designing for Expression of Dynamic Place Meaning at a Site Perceived as Functional”
Rachel Miller – MLA and MUP, Committee Chair (2010)
“Designing to Strengthen Cultural Diversity: The Modern West African Diaspora’s Use and
Transformation of Public and Semi-Public Space in Seattle”
Corinna Welzenbach – MLA Committee Chair (2010)
“Post-Soviet Transformations of Public Space in Krasnodar, Russia”
Michael Lewis – MLA (2010)
“Walking: An Experiential Approach to Design and Meaning”
Virginia Coffman – MLA Committee Chair (2009)
“Wayfinding and Signage for Seattle’s Bicycle Master Plan”
Yuko Ono – MLA Committee Chair (2008)
“Therapeutic Environments: Enhancing Beneficial Emotional Interactions between Humans and Their
Surroundings”
Ashley Thorner – MLA (2008)
“High Octane: Re-servicing the Service Station with Super-Natural Aesthetics”
Noelle Higgens – MLA Committee Chair (2007)
“City Hall Park: Dignity, Democracy, Homelessness and Design for an Urban Park”
Vanessa Lee – MLA Committee Chair (2007)
“Where’s the Bok Choy?: A Case Study Analysis of the High Point Market Garden.”
Elizabeth Umbanhowar – MLA (2007)
“Reel to Real: Film and Landscape, Image and Experience”
Jocelyn Frielinger – MLA (2007)
“Landscape and Universal Design: A User-based Critique of Cal Anderson Park.”
Michal Russo – MLA Committee Chair (2006)
“Synergy is Just Beyond the Fence: Ecological Design of Dog Parks”
Amy Lindemuth – MLA (2006)
“SOU Courtyard Garden: Designing a Therapeutic Environment for Corrections Staff and Mentally Ill
Offenders”
Eric Higbee – MLA (2006)
“Seattle’s Last/First Farm: Cultivating Community, Agriculture and Environment in our Urban Context”
Dottie Faris – MLA Committee Chair (2005)
“Healing the River: Designing to Reveal the Language of the Duwamish River.”
John Hammond – MLA (2005)
“Storying the Shoreline: Revealing Cultural and Environmental History on the Lake Union Waterfront.”
Amy Cragg – MLA (2005)
“A Study on the Design of Emptiness: An Open-Ended Pier Space on Seattle's Central Waterfront”
Keiko Shimada – MLA (2005)
“Finding Narratives: Streetscape Improvement Plan for Seattle’s International District”
Christina Frank – MLA (2005)
“Remanufacturing Ross Island: A Mining Site as an Urban Wildlife Park”
Mary Lou Smith – MLA (2005)
“Uniting Ecological Sustainability and Socially Vital Urban Streetscapes to Create a New Paradigm:
Redevelopment of Northgate's 5th Avenue NE”
Laura Davis – MLA (2004)
“Campus Brownfield to Urban Wetland Treasure.”
Laura Ballock – MLA (2004)
“Free Woodard Creek: Poetry, Logic and Design for Healing and Revealing a Watershed.”
Jan Satterthwaite – MLA (2003)
“Inviting Humor into the Therapeutic Landscape: Site Design Principles and Process for Gilda’s Club,
Seattle”
Clara Pang – MLA (2003)
“Resisting the Normative Landscape: Public Space and Protest in Seattle”
Independent Studies - Doctoral Students
Dana Prince – School of Social Work (Spring 2010, Autumn 2011, Winter 2012)
The Influence of Place on Identity and Future Possible Selves among Minority Youth
Juie Kreigh – Built Environment (Winter 2010)
Affordable Housing and Place Meaning
Grace Kline – School of Nursing (2009)
Pain Horizons: Older Women with Osteoarthritis and Outdoor Environments
Shu-Mei Huang –Built Environment (2008)
Enclaves in a new sense: The mutually constitutive relations between enclave and its surroundings
Alma Trinidad – School of Social Work (2006)
Positionalities and Place Meaning: Building Success and Resiliency among Filipino Adolescents
Karen Hope Bankcroft – School of Social Work (2006)
Homelessness and Neo-liberalism: A Critique
Jayde Lin Roberts – Built Environment (2006)
Meanings of Place and Identity in the Chinese Diaspora
Independent Studies - Masters Students
Erica Bush – Masters Student – Dept of Landscape Architecture
“Understanding Gentrifying Neighborhoods – the Experience of Long Term Residents”
Yingju Yeh – Masters Student: Dept of Landscape Architecture (2012)
Post occupancy Evaluation of a Community Gathering Space
VeraEve Giampietro – Masters Student: Dept of Landscape Architecture (2012)
Post occupancy Evaluation of a Community Gathering Space
Chen Hai – Masters Student: Dept of Landscape Architecture (2012)
Edible Landscape in Urban Taiwan
Megan Wedlake – Master’s Student, UW Evans School of Public Affairs (2012)
Place Meaning and Attachment
Brian Fabella – Masters Student: Dept of Landscape Architecture (2009)
Construction Materials and Green Design – Sustainable Approaches
Erin Berg – Masters Student: Dept of Landscape Architecture (2009)
Cultural landscapes of the California: Vernacular architecture and ecological design
Yuko Ono – Masters Student: Dept of Landscape Architecture (2007)
Therapeutic and Healing Gardens
Amy Lindemuth – Masters Student: Dept of Landscape Architecture (2005)
Exploring the Therapeutic and Restorative Effects of Gardens and Gardening
Undergraduate Students
Jonathan Jue – Senior Thesis
Contested Landscapes in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina (2011)
Sara Chirila – General Studies Student – Independent Fieldwork (2011)
Marine Life in the Puget Sound – Experiential Drawings of a Scuba Diver
Mark Tyler Hennon – Undergraduate Student in the Individualized Studies Program (2011)
Lake Union Park: A Study of a Park in its Infancy
Sylvia Tatman-Burruss – Undergraduate Student in Community, Environment & Planning (2009)
The Effect of Architectural Design on the Lives of Residents of an Affordable Housing Community in
Seattle’s Chinatown-International District
Erin Hansen – Undergraduate Student in the Comparative History of Ideas (2007)
National American Memorials: Representation, Social Obligation and Ideological Constructions of
Morality- Senior Research Paper
Celeste Gilman – Undergraduate Student in Community, Environment & Planning (2003)
Fear of Crime as a Barrier to Urban Park Use: A Gendered Perspective - Senior Research Paper