Metropolitan Planning & Urban Policy — Research Expertise Area - Evans School of Public Policy & Governance

Faculty & Researchers

Teaching Metropolitan Planning & Urban Policy in 2026–27

Joaquín Herranz

Associate Professor

Dafeng Xu

Assistant Professor

Research expertise in Metropolitan Planning & Urban Policy

Scott Allard

Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professor of Social Policy

Raheem Chaudhry

Assistant Professor

Jacob Vigdor

Professor of Public Policy & Governance

Isaiah Wright

Ph.D. Candidate

Research

Project Fauntleroy Ferry Study A study on how to improve ticketing and loading at the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal in West Seattle.

Courses

News & Research

New Evidence from the Seattle Minimum Wage Study

In 2014, Seattle passed a minimum wage law that raised the city’s minimum wage from the state’s minimum wage of…