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Isolated Urban Places & Spaces: A Rails-With-Trails Solution (Fargo, ND)
(2012)
This thesis focuses on exploring the question: how can a
pedestrian trail along an active railway corridor unite several
isolated areas of a city? The typology for exploring this project is an urban railway system that ...
Urban Greenway Transformation: Multi-Functional Design Alternatives for the Fargo Community
(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 ...
Retrofitting Suburban Plains: Creating a Walkable Mixed-use Neighborhood for South Fargo
(2016)
This thesis aims to retrofit existing infrastructure and future development plans for a south Fargo neighborhood in order to transform the neighborhood into a walkable mixed-use urban center. Walkability is defined by ...
On the Fringe
(2012)
When communities fail to plan, there is no institutional framework where development
can progress. This leaves little opportunity for expansion or modification based on changing
needs. The establishment of a common vision ...
Community Resilience: Investing in Walkability
(2011)
Currently, Main Avenue is lacking character and connection to the rest of Fargo, North Dakota. Most of Main Avenue is zoned commercial, and it appears to be highly industrialized because of full scale billboards, concrete ...
Prairie Park: An Ecological Wetland Proposal & Recreational Destination for North Fargo
(2016)
The city of Fargo, ND, has approximately 40 stormwater detention and retention basins throughout the city. Many of which are vast open grass fields with concrete channels that do not support or welcome human interaction. ...
Great escapeway : connecting North Dakota State University to downtown Fargo
(2015)
The primary focus of this thesis is to demonstrate how the Great Northern Rail Corridor, located in Fargo, North Dakota, can be repurposed into a greenway that connects North Dakota State University and its students with ...
Healing an Environment and Feeding a Population
(2012)
The intent of this design thesis is to examine a sustainable
solution for an urban plan in southwest Fargo that includes using
urban agriculture as a tool to encourage recycling gray water
and promoting a solution to the ...
Fresh Place Market: A Permanent Farmer's Market Solution Supporting the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area
(2013)
Current farmers and individual food producers are struggling for spatial identity and social legitimacy in a larger food network that currently exists in America. Much of the current research only focuses on consumer and ...
Red River Civic Plaza : an urban park destination for Fargo-Moorhead Community
(2015)
The City of Fargo, North Dakota, is funding the construction of a new City Hall to replace their current 1960s structure. This proposed development provides the largest city in North Dakota with a tremendous opportunity ...