During this past spring break I traveled to Istanbul with a CBE colleague, two local developers and two Master of Real Estate graduate students to study how this trans-continental city is dealing with unprecedented urban growth.  This group was the 2012 Runstad Real Estate Research Fellows, ...

Public Space | Public Life Studio on Seattle’s Central Waterfront   Autumn 2011 ARCH 504/LARCH 504  Professors Kathryn R. Merlino and Nancy Rottle “Playing on the Pier” Saturday, October 8th Seattle’s Central Waterfront is heralded as one of the most significant...

Like many, I was hooked on traveling the first time I went abroad.   Alone in a new country, my senses were assaulted at every turn by new languages, sights and smells.  It was intoxicating. Henry Miller said that “one’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things,...