The Runstad Center is pleased to announce that we have a newly-minted PhD student!
Andy earned his degree through the Interdisciplinary PhD program in Urban Design & Planning, advised by Runstad Center faculty member Christopher Bitter. Andy’s dissertation work focused on the policy and market context for urban intensification within the City of Seattle. More specifically, he developed a toolbox-type planning support system to measure parcel-level land use change within the city. Using data from this model, he then analyzed housing growth within the City’s Urban Villages and conducted a statistical analysis of the determinants of low-rise redevelopment over the 2003 to 2012 period. Overall findings suggest that: 1) the City’s Urban Villages have been meeting growth targets; and 2) the low-rise redevelopment process in Seattle is driven primarily by factors influencing profitability and that the importance of certain factors – such as lot size and nearby redevelopment activity – varies over both space and time.
In the near future, Andy will be splitting time between on-going research projects at the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies and his continued consulting work with Greenfield Advisors, a Seattle-based valuation firm. He can be reached at alkrause@uw.edu.
Congratulations, Dr. Krause!