Nicholas Zaferatos
Western Washington University’s bachelor’s program in Urban Planning and Sustainable Development has been granted candidacy status for national accreditation.
Western would join only 15 other accredited undergraduate planning programs in the United States, and would be only…
Western Washington University hopes to open a community learning center on the Bellingham, Wash., waterfront within the next five years as the Waterfront Master Plan gains traction after a decade of discussion and controversy.
The Port and City of Bellingham recently agreed to develop…
Since the Sustainability Academy formed in 2009 at Western Washington University, much has changed. The campus now has a course offering in sustainability literacy that introduces first- and second-year students to the multidisciplinary aspects of systems and integrative thinking. In addition,…
Here is Dave Hedlin's recipe for the side-by-side survival of Skagit Valley farmers and Native American fisheries: "Salmon fettuccine," he says, a smile wreathing his broad face, pink-tinged from summer days spent in his vegetable fields near La Conner.
"You take…
Western Washington University’s Urban Transitions Studio will present the Bellingham Downtown Edge Corridor Planning Study from 7-9 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13 in the City Hall Council Chambers at 210 Lottie St.
The presentation will be free and open to the public.
This…
Western Washington University’s Urban Transitions Studio will present the Bellingham Downtown Edge Corridor Planning Study from 7-9 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13, in the City Hall Council Chambers at 210 Lottie St. The presentation will be free and open to the public. This year's Urban…
Nicholas C. Zaferatos, an associate professor of Urban Planning and Sustainable Development in Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University, recently published a series of articles on socially equitable sustainable community development (“Reviving the Mediterranean…
A free planning short course that will cover the legal framework for local government planning and will discuss how comprehensive planning shapes community development will take place at 6:30 p.m. today, Nov. 16, on theWestern Washington University campus in AIC West Room 210.
The…
Ithaca, the Greek island famous as the home of the wayward Ulysses, is also the setting for one of Western Washington University's most successful faculty-led programs. At noon on May 3 in College Hall Room 131, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Nicholas Zaferatos will describe…
During the summer of 2010, Western Washington University Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Nicholas Zaferatos and 18 students from Western traveled to the island village of Kioni in Ithaca, Greece as part of a faculty-led study abroad program, focusing their energies on devising a…