Browsing NDSU Theses & Dissertations by Title

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    • Urban Endemics: Protecting Imperiled Species 

      Sagvold, Jodi (2011)
      This thesis project will explore the requirements for a botanical garden and associated grounds, within the city of Fargo, North Dakota. A key element includes the addition of micro-climates suitable for the introduction/ ...

    • Urban Greenway Retrofit: a design for alternative transportation, community and the environment 

      Rude, Maegin (2011)
      This thesis will examine how greenway systems connect and strengthen neighborhoods and green spaces within a city. A connected greenway system links green spaces within a city to enhance the relationships and well-being ...

    • Urban Greenway Transformation: Multi-Functional Design Alternatives for the Fargo Community 

      Eisenbraun, David L (2013)
      This study assesses how citywide greenway systems connect and strengthen neighborhoods, provide recreational opportunities, enhance options to use multi-modal transportation, and expand usable green spaces. A pedestrian ...

    • Urban Identity : Frogtown Finds Itself 

      Roden, Michael (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      Our cities are too often disconnected. They are disconnected in the sense of a failure to relate neighborhoods and districts to each other. This is especially true for cities which lack effective public transportation. ...

    • Urban Individuality 

      Fugleberg, Ryan (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      This thesis explores possible answers to the question, is individualism slowing the growth of dense housing? The Typology used to examine this problem is a dense residential/mixed use complex. The Theoretical Premise/Unifying ...

    • Urban infrastructure 

      Buerkle, Tyler (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      This thesis project, Urban Infrastructure, provides answers to the question, How can a city’s systems and infrastructure influence its architecture? The building typology used to examine this question is a 75,000 sq. ft. ...

    • Urban Paths 

      Grunwald, Aaron (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      The typology for this thesis project will be a hybrid transit center. Public awareness on the effects that vehicles and buildings have on the environment is a large component to this project. This will be done through a ...

    • Urban Resurrection 

      Leidholm, Dustin (North Dakota State University, 2011)
      Communities are becoming increasingly aware that current trends of expansive growth are not sustainable. Infill development, or the development of vacant or under-utilized sites within urban areas, can be an alternative ...

    • Urban Revitalization: Place-Making in Deteriorating Downtowns 

      Gottwalt, Daniel (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      Downtown urban centers are the key to any functional city. They provide a canvas for communities to establish a cultural hub and sense of place. Over the last decade, communities across America have had trouble maintaining ...

    • Urban Stadia: Integrating Stadium Design with Mixed-Use Building Tactics to Rejuvenate an Urban Neighborhood 

      Borgen, Mitchell (North Dakota State University, 2016)
      Sporting stadiums impact the socio-economic capabilities in all of the areas in which they exist. Some have a good impact, they are able to fully integrate into the urban environment and benefit the area through areas such ...

    • Urban Thaw: Encouraging Human Connection within a Winter City 

      Foss, Austin (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      What makes urban life possible is human interaction. Without it, cities would not thrive. It has become increasingly easier for residents of cities to stay indoors and neglect the environment and people around them. In ...

    • Urban Transitions: making connections between transportation to the livable environment 

      Olson, Adam (2013)
      The dependence on personal vehicles for transportation continues to grow for Americans. This has changed the shape of our cities toward automobile oriented transportation over the past decades. In return cities have been ...

    • Urban Water: Seeking Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Connections 

      D'Arcangeli, Candice (2012)
      Water is an essential element for human life, not only is it a biological requirement of the human body, it is also an inherent part of our everyday lives. It is so common in everyday life that it is being overused. Due ...

    • Urban water: weaving through the layers 

      Saengporm, Ploiphan (North Dakota State University, 2013)
      Architecture acts as a tool in creating a healthy environment, a settlement for nourishing culture, whether through the natural or built environment. This thesis is aimed toward an exploration of urban water through ...

    • Urbanscape Revitalization 

      Grant, Leroy (2012)
      This thesis will seek to explore how Landscape Architecture, through strategic urban design and planning, can be instrumental to improving the unstable population within Urban communities. Such horrific decay of urban areas ...

    • Urgency Predicts Differences in Cigarette Consumption 

      Kuvaas, Nicholas Jacob (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      Smokers have been classified into three separate groups based on cigarette consumption where regular smokers consume more than 5 cigarettes a day, chippers consume 5 cigarettes a day or less, and social smokers only smoke ...

    • Usability Construct for Mobile Applications: A Clustering based Approach 

      Kotala, Pratap (North Dakota State University, 2015)
      The growth of mobile applications that run on cell phones and other handheld devices has introduced a broad range of usability challenges that were not faced by the web and standalone PC environments. The current usability ...

    • Use Agreements and Economic Performance of U.S. Airports 

      Karanki, Fecri (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      In the U.S., airport use agreements are developed based on three common rate-setting approaches: the residual, compensatory, and hybrid methods. Under a residual agreement, the financial risk of the host airport is borne ...

    • The Use of Bananas in Preventing Exercise Associated Muscle Cramps 

      Hallissey, Hannah Marie (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      Bananas have been consumed by athletes in the belief that they prevent muscle cramping. However, there are no studies in the literature that test plasma potassium concentration as a prevention technique for exercise ...

    • The Use of Behavioral Measures to Quantify Welfare in Dairy Cows and Lambs 

      Chapel, Nichole Marie (North Dakota State University, 2014)
      The primary objective of the experiments described in this thesis was to use quantitative behavioral measures of livestock to evaluate animal welfare. In one study, the effects of a therapeutic drug in lame dairy cows were ...