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Professor
Anne
Vernez Moudon
Fritz
Wagner
Associate Professor
Richard Horner
Jeff Hou
Julie Johnson
Lynne Manzo
Iain Robertson
Nancy Rottle
Daniel Winterbottom
Assistant Professor
Thaisa Way
Lecturers
Gareth Loveridge
Luanne Smith
Nhon Truong
KRISTINA HILL
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Associate
Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
Adjunct Professor, Department of Architecture
342 Gould Hall
Box 355734
Seattle WA 98195-5734
kzhill@u.washington.edu
206.616.3582
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RESEARCH
Kristina's current research asks questions about both the shape and the surface of cities, by exploring the implications of urban form for our ability to sustain the ecological processes we value and depend upon. She asks:
How can we apply landscape ecological concepts to urban areas, to make the study of urban ecology both spatially-explicit and applicable to urban design and policy?
which urban patterns that are influenced by human design have detectable impacts on ecological processes like songbird population dynamics, or the biodiversity of aquatic organisms?
how do our different ways of categorizing and classifying urban features (and human culture) influence our ability to detect and represent urban patterns?how do the historical functions associated with different built forms influence the meaning associated with these forms in contemporary urban landscapes?
what is "ecological infrastructure," and how can it be designed to provide multiple functions in an urban context?
how do urban spatial patterns influence the sustainability of urbanized (and urbanizing) regions?
Kristina's most recent writing about the answers to these questionswill be available in a new book on Landscape Urbanism in the Pacific Northwest, due out from the University of Washington Press in 2004.