Circular City + Living Systems Lab
The CCLS publishes the results of interdisciplinary research & design work in different formats and outlets to reach various stakeholders interested in the sustainable future of cities. Explore our publications below!
Books, Chapters + Articles
- Commercial Rooftop Greenhouses: Technical requirements, operational strategies, economic considerations, and future opportunities
- Urban Integration of Aquaponics
- Productive Urban Open Spaces: Water, Energy, and Organic Materials for the Circular City
- Site Resource Inventories – a Missing Link in the Circular City’s Information Flow
- CITYFOOD: Research Design for an International, Transdisciplinary Collaboration
- Aquaponics in the Built Environment
- Review of Built to Grow: Blending Architecture and Biology
- Growing Urbanism: A Manifesto toward an Ecological Urbanism
- Creating Urban Agricultural Systems: An Integrated Approach to Design
- Growing Urbanism: An Evolutionary Urban Ecology in Cascadia
- Growing Sustainability – Integrating Algae Cultivation into the Built Environment
- The Built Environments Laboratory: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Studio Education in the Planning and Design Disciplines
Conference Papers + Posters
- COVID-19 Rapid Response: Design Determinants of Seattle Food Retail Business Continuity
- Sourcing Energy from Waste in the Circular City: Integrated Anaerobic Digestion toward long term Decarbonization
- Adaptive Reuse as Carbon Adaptation: Urban Food Production in the under-used Parking Garages of the Future
- Building an Ecosystem: Integrating Rooftop Aquaponics with a Brewery to Advance the Circular Economy
- Urban Food Systems: Applying Life Cycle Assessment in Built Environments and Aquaponics
- Photosynthetic Energy and Ecological Recycling: The Architectural Potential of Algae Cultivation
- Urban Rooftops as Productive Resources: Rooftop Farming versus Conventional Green Roofs
- Urban Water: Re‐Introduction of Sustainable Water Cycles through Urban Agriculture
- Hybridizing the American ‘Parkway’: The Potential of Urban Agriculture to create more Sustainable Cities
- Urban Cultural Greenway – The Potential of Urban Agriculture as Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
Podcasts + Videos
Design Projects and Student Work
- Design for 203X
- Liberating Rivers
- Re:GEN – An Alternative to Occupying Urban Space
- SYM: Ballard Community Hub
- Seattle Global Greens
- Gather + Grow
- Ballard Market Landing
- Agricultural Learning Center
- The (Tree)tment Center
- Soilcraft: A Necessary Fiction
- Terminal Vacancies in the Industrial Void: A Combined District Heating Power Plant and Public Bath in the Port of Tacoma
- Designing for Disassembly in the Built Environment
- The Shape of Global Wealth: Slender Towers from New York to Seattle
- Live | Work | Grow: Integrating Food Production into a Cooperative Housing Project
- Datascapes: Revealing the Potential of Data to Design Neighborhoods For the Future
- Landscape of Fulfillment: Re-examining Infrastructures for E-Commerce Distribution in Los Angeles
