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Architecture and Urban Design

• Jeannie Park — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  The benefits of the green building
• Oliver Fries — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  LEED Certification: Motives for Implementation
• Jamie Yan — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Visualizing Sustainability
• Oliver Fries — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  LEED Certification: Motives for Implementation
• Casey Uy — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Public Participation: The Importance of Community Participation in Neighborhood Planning
• Lyric Kelkar — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Accommodationg the Masses: A Closer Looking Into Popular San Diego Meeting Points
• Ghina Kim — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Finding the Community Voice in the Politics of Land Use and Planning Understanding the relationship
• Danielle Dowler — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Public Space within a Dense Urban Center
• Oliver Fries — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
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• Frederico Tou — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Sustainable Designs in La Jolla—Building La Jolla as a Low Automobile Dependency Community
• AJ Cawood — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Economic Challenges Associated with the LEED Certification of Architecture in San Diego
• Seiyoung Park — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Urban Vitality Through Regional Parks
• Eliza Yu — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Designing Affordable Housing Using Sustainable Design Methods
• Jamie Yan — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Eye-ing Sustainability: A Study of Deeper Implications of Aesthetics in Relation to Sustainability
• Gerrlyn Gacao — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  When Transportation Planning Meet Innovative Design: The Case of the Uptown District in San Diego
• Rance Leslie — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Designing for the future as it becomes our past
• Daniel Lee — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  LEED: Sufficient for National Policy?
• Kristy Shields — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  It Takes a Vision to Raise a Village: A Case Study of The Village at Market Creek
• Melissa Liu — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Saving the Environment: Green Skyscrapers
• Oliver Fries — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Building for the Future
• Riley Weissenborn — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Reuse Warehouses: Recycled Building Materials Making Their Way into Everyday Life
• Christopher Ramos — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Structures of a Sustainable Future
• Lyric Kelkar — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Building Our Way To A Better Society
• Jeannie Park — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  UCSD Green Campus
• Curtis Ju — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  How can physical designs affect the way society makes use of public spaces?
• Frank Li — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Musical Culture, Street Performance, and Coherent Urban Design
• Danielle Dowler — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Public Space within a Dense Urban Center: A study of public spaces within the city of San Francisco
• Nina Phinouwong — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Urban Consciousness and Mobile Music Culture
• Sareeta Patel — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Pre-Modernist Architecture vs. Modernist Architecture: Impact on educational experience
• Andrew Ko — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Compact Growth: A Model for Future Urban Development
• Audrey Mitchell — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Does Physical Design Actually Promote Pedestrianism?
• Christopher Pegg — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Inheriting Sustainability:  Problems of Induction, the Individual, and the Architect
• Andrew Johnson — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  LEED Building Design: Overview of free market and government incentives
• Ho Chung Au — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  21st Century Ideal Buildings: Design Sustainable Architecture with the contribution of Art
• Calvin Chan — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Thinking Inside the Box: Shipping Container Architecture and its Role for a Sustainable Future
• Chad Diep — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Green Materials Are Not Only for the Homes of the Rich
• Judy Chau — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  New Urbanism, an Experiment or a Practical Approach?
• Antonio Monreal — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Implementing Sustainability Practices and Elements in University City: Creating a Pedestrian…
• Pamela Peng — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  SurveyLA as a process model: an assessment of the citywide historic resource survey of Los Angeles
• André da Metz — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Housing the Disabled: A Case Study of Mayberry Townhomes
• Maia Maria Almendral — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Innovative Urban Design: The Case of San Francisco’s Octavia Boulevard
• William Godfrey — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Burn After Reading:  Merging Fire Science with the Governance of San Diego’s Wildland-Urban Interf
• Leah Murphy — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Comparing Energy and Water Efficiency of LEED Certified Buildings to non-LEED Certified Builings
• Laura Weinstein — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Bicycle Planning at the University of California, San Diego
• Sarah Dillon — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Robert and Rio: How to Sustainably House the Increasingly Urbanized World
• Jenny Ngo — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  The Character of Infill: A Case Study of Hillcrest’s Uptown Shopping Center
• Jeremy Garber — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  The Effects of Urban Design
• Brian Knox — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  The Privatization of the Public Realm: Downtown San Diego and the Commercialization of Public Space
• Jasmin Kay Ayres — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Walkable or Not?: An Assessment of Walkability Audits, their Results, and their Impact on Future Dev
• Jemma Mae De Leon — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Designing Sustainability: Forging a Balance between Social and Ecological Needs

Community and Economic Development

• David Luu — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Big Push for Big Box Stores
• Ryan Seda — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  The need for Microfinance to be implemented using a multipronged approach
• Kathy Tran — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  The Economic Effectiveness of Historic Designation in San Diego
• David Luu — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Big Push for Big Box Stores
• David Luu — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
• Deion Lin — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Advertising Cities: City Marketing
• David Luu — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Big Push for Big Box Stores
• Sarah Hu — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  City Heights: A Rehabilitative Plan for Homeownership
• Alexis Glasgow — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Developing Improved Urban Space, the Effects of Walkability
• Ellis Valencia — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Building Community through Art: A Case Study of Writerz Blok Art Program in San Diego
• James Evans — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Housing Subsidies for the Rich: Ideas for a more equitable financing system
• Natanael Roberts — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Pathways Towards Financial Inclusion: Assessing Financial Resources Through Asset Mapping– DD SESD
• Alexis Glasgow — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Development of urban space
• Adrian Tamas — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Community Gardens: Building community through Gardening
• Mireya Morales — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Access to Higher Education: Spatial Mapping of Military Recruitment
• David Luu — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Big Push for Big Box: Economical Impact of Superstores
• Daisy Miguel — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Empowering the Mixtecos in Linda Vista
• Josh Van Zak — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Sim City Realized and its Implications
• Kathy Tran — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  The Economic Effectiveness of Historic Designation in San Diego
• Wendy Chan — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Environmental Impacts and Conservation Practices of Urban Farms
• Michael Christensen — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Implications of an Uneven Distribution
• Tricia Dietz — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Reaching New Heights
• Deion Lin — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Advertising Cities.
• Austin Jun — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Analyzing the Process of Gentrification and Its Impact on Affordable Housing
• Ryan Lue — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Investing in Human Capital for Economic Viability in Homelessness-Related Programs in the City of Sa
• Cynthia Centeno — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Developing, Establishing, and Expanding Local Community Resources (The birth of a new institution)
• Timothy Peterka — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Arriving at Sustainability: Investigating the Incentives of Airport Sustainability Programs
• Jennifer Tran — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Expansion of Las Colinas Approved, Women’s Detention Facility located in Santee- San Diego County
• Roberta Lee — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Promotion and Access of Healthy Foods in Ethnic Communities of City Heights (Profile)
• Daniela Trujillo — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Save our Center: An Inventory of Metrics for the California Center for the Arts, Escondido
• Lanvy Nguyen — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Participatory Planning in Redevelopment: Are Project Area Committees Working?
• SungGil Hong — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  The Business of Sustainability
• Thao Nguyen — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  A San Diego Ethnic Business Cluster: A Case Study of the Proposed Little Saigon on El Cajon Blvd
• Cody Fleischauer — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Cultural Economics in Southern California
• Adam Gage — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  The Birdland Pit: A Suburban Opportunity
• Victor Cuate — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Historic Centers and Economic Development

Environment

• Sarah Dillon — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Senior Research Project
• Maribel Contreras — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Effectiveness of community based organization
• Mona Logan — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Necropolis Planning and Design: Green Burial for the Mission San Luis Rey
• Mona Logan — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Natural/ Green Burial
• Melissa Reyes — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Examining Our Water Shortage: Desalination Plants
• Ryan Sclar — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Localizing agricultural distribution networks in San Diego County
• An Luong — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Assessing the Future of Sustainable Communities in China
• Raman Deol — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Examining Water Abuse from a Point of Privilege: Why People Cannot Stop Running Their Taps
• Sanh Luong — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  The Pros and Cons of Rainwater Catchment in San Diego
• Allison Weston — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  It’s More Than Just Planting Seeds, Picking Beans, and Pulling Weeds
• Brock Pruter — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Offshore Wind Farms in San Diego
• Caroline Lao — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  New Energy, Old Waste
• Christina Chon — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Eliminating Plastic Bags (Winter ‘11)
• William Lee — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Intended Use vs. Actual Use of Smart Growth Designed Projects
• Maureen MacManus — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Environmental Justice and Community Food Security: A Case Study in City Heights
• James Grosvenor — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Greening the University: Challenges and progress in the implementation of sustainable practices
• Carla Salehian — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Running Dry: A Historical Analysis of Water System Development in San Diego
• Sandy Ngan — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Examining UC San Diego’s Organizational Structure and Culture Towards Energy Neutrality

Housing

• Eliza Yu — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  A Comparative Study of Affordable Housing to Sustainable Housing Projects in San Diego
• Eliza Yu — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Sustainable Design Methods for Affordable Housing in San Diego
• Jason Lee — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Affordable Housing: An Impact on Families
• James Evans — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Truths and Fallacies Surrounding the Mortgage Interest Deduction: A Case Study of San Diego County
• Joseph Reinagel — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Section 8 in San Diego: Determining the effectiveness of Section 8 from the tenant’s perspective
• Michael Lin — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Where Does Affordable Housing Money Come From? Understanding the flow of investment in City Heights
• Lisi Martinez-Manriquez — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  The Urban Village and the People Who Call it Home.
• Bita Kamoei — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Increasing Coachella’s housing affordability through awareness
• Erica Lucero — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  More than Just a Place to Live: A Case Study of Affordable Housing Units in City Heights
• Jolene Crixell — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Conveying Hope VI: A Comparative Analysis Across Newspaper, Think Tank, and Governmental Arenas
• Keith Pezzoli — (Academic year: 2008-2009)
  Redevelopment & Affordable Housing: City of San Diego’s use of Spatial Criteria
• Jacqueline Franco — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Addressing the Needs of the Underserved: A Case Study of the Mercado Apartments in Barrio Logan
• Nicole Piano — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Affordable Senior Housing
• Michelle Kim — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Redevelopment & Affordable Housing: City of SD RDA’s Affordable Housing Demonstrate Spatial Quality
• Vivian Flores — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  The Public Sector’s Cultural Competency and Effectiveness in Providing Latinos with Homeownership
• Dylan Hecklau — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Affordable Housing in the City of Poway

Infrastructure and Public Facilities

• Saran Simon — (Academic year: )
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• Arthur Chow — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Trash Wave Into the Future: A Feasibility Study of a Cogeneration Wastewater Treatment Plant in Hunt
• Arthur Chow — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Ridinge the Trash Wave Into the Future: A Feasibility Study of a Cogeneration Biogas Plant in the Hu
• Fernando Avila — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Sports Relocation and City Development
• Saran Simon — (Academic year: )
  Reasearch Proposal Final Draft
• Arthur Chow — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Trash to Cash: Rethinking Regional Waste Management
• Hyacinthe Coulibaly — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  The Impact of Public and Private Partnerships In Support Of Renewable Energy
• Elliot Seeto — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Exploring Rainwater Harvesting for the City of San Diego

Public Health, Safety and Welfare

• Hien Thach — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Epidemiological study of HIV/AIDS in Hillcrest
• Mously Diakhate — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Public Health in the Age of Globalization
• Angelica Bolor — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  What’s for Dinner
• Mously Diakhate — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Public Health in the Age of Globalization
• Samantha Lee — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Farmers’ Markets as Community-Based Health Interventions
• David Weissman — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Battling Poverty through Educational Programs
• Angelica Bolor — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  What’s For Dinner?  Impacts and Desire for a Farmers Market in Southeast San Diego
• Maribel Contreras — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Environment influence on public health
• Zee Sa — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  The Effects of Water Storage and Irrigation on Human Vulnerability to Disease
• Lynor Belen — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Recovered [In]equalities: Empowering Communities to Impact Environmental Change
• Karina Gonzalez — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Placement in the ELD Program: A Case Study of Cien Elementary’s Program Effectiveness
• Chi Dang — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  From Yesterday’s Novice Pre-Service Teachers to Tomorrow’s Educators
• Jonny Gose — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Mighty Oaks From Acorns Grow: Gompers Preparatory Academy as a model for Urban Education
• Mously Diakhate — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Public Health in the Age of Globalization
• Brittany Montgomery — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Comparative Analysis of Why Certain Foods Enter the Home
• Irene Cheng — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  The Preuss School and Gompers Charter Middle School
• Suchitra Mukherjee — (Academic year: 2011-2012)
  The Built Environment and Human Health: Examining the Relationship Between Parks and Obesity
• Emma Reed — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Emergency Response Planning at UCSD
• Justice Castaneda — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  An Analysis of a Different Approach to Alternative Education: ACCESS at Garfield High School
• Suchitra Mukherjee — (Academic year: 2011-2012)
  The Built Environment and Human Health
• Omri Ben-Ari — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  The Correlations Between Traffic Management Systems and, Community Demographics
• Carolyn James — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Public Education: Why Are California’s Schools Failing the Students Who Need Them the Most?
• Sonlong Nguyen — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  The Effect of the Campus Social Climate at UCSD on Student Body Retention:  How does involvement wi

Transportation Planning

• Erick Serrano — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Developing Efficient and Sustainable Transportation Systems in San Diego
• Christopher Ramos — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Walking Along North Park and Hillcrest
• Erick Serrano — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Developing Efficient and Sustainable Transportation Systems in San Diego
• Erick Serrano — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
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• Melody Wu — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Creating Cycling Campuses: Following the European Example
• Fai Chan — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Public Transportation in San Diego
• Jennifer Chang — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Bus Rapid Transit: an alternative form of transportation
• Robert Felix — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Bicycle Transportation in San Diego: Increasing Mode Share by Understanding Why People Ride
• James Nguyen — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Evaluating the Potential of a HOT BRT Synergistic Model for Low-Mid Density Cities
• Carmen Chen — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Road Pricing for Los Angeles
• Erick Serrano — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Efficient Transportation
• Allison Dawson — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Securing a Sustainable Future for San Diego: Collaborative Planning & a Regional Transit Equity Strg
• Benjamin Mills — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Transit Oriented Development: Light Rail Transit in Dense Urban Area
• Elle Harrington — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Developing Sustainable Transportation and Growth in the City of La Jolla
• Nicholas Fung — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  The effect of the SuperLoop bus route on UCSD-generated traffic in University City
• Dillon Miner — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  SAFETEA-LU’s Effect on Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Development of Rural Transportation
• Mina Pashayi — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Transportation, infrastructure development, and sustainability in Rio de Janeiro
• Trevor Haag — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Shared-lane markings in San Diego: low-cost, non-segregated alternative bicycle facilities
• Michael Couvrette — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Coordinating Multimodal Transit Operations to Maximize Ridership Generation

Tribal Policy and Planning

• Anastasiya Plotina — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Identifying Environmental Injustice through Topics of Tribal Sovereignty and Land Use Politics

Urban and Regional Planning

• Maksim Labutin — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  localizing agriculture production to ensure our sustainable future
• Maksim Labutin — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  localizing agriculture production to ensure our sustainable future
• Joann Carlisle — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Building Public Space Alternatives for Dense Urban Centers
• Tien Tu — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Smart Growth in San Diego: Measuring Policy Effectiveness-Analyzing Efficacy of Smart Growth Policie
• Amy Truong — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  The Possibilities of Sustainable Development through the Public Sphere
• Casey Uy — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Neighborhood Design Appropriate for Growth while Maintaining Neighborhood Character
• Siroun Kaloustian — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  San Diego Regional Development: Expansion Without Degradation
• Mona Logan — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Green Burial:  Environmental Impact and Concerns of Green Burial vs. Customary Methods

US-Mexico Border Planning

• Jennifer Leonard — (Academic year: 2010-2011)
  Trans-border Trash Tracking Study: Scientific Data for Policy Change
• Mauricio Moreno — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Scrap Tire Contamination at the U.S./Mexican Border Region
• guillermo moreira — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  US-Mexico Border
• David Gallegos — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  A sustainable U.S- Mexico Border
• michelle lu — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Unplanned Settlement : The Case of Tijuana
• Diego Mejia — (Academic year: 2009-2010)
  Community Mobilization and Pervious Pavers in Erosion Control and Storm Water Management Projects

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