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Designing For All Seasons
(2012)
This design project examines how a landscape design can activate a small-scale Midwestern city’s outdoor use and tourism potential during the winter season. In the city of Bemidji, MN, the winter season can start as early ...
Urban Water: Seeking Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Connections
(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 ...
Roberts Alley Revamp: Introducing and Implementing Pedestrian Design Principles (Complexity, Transparency & Human Scale) in Fargo, ND
(2017)
Alleys are underutilized as contemporary pedestrian thoroughfares because they have historically served to hide the utilitarian functions of urban life. Thus, the narrow spaces fail to provide the necessary amenity required ...
Community Fabrication
(2010)
This thesis set out to design for multiple people and their particular uses. To combine the desires of many and influence the way that they all use the space. Each
user has defined different outcomes for the area, with no ...
Moorhead City Walk : a masterplan to reimage Moorhead, Minnesota's urban core
(2015)
This project explores the dynamics of streetscapes seeking to understand why some projects are successful and others are not. The location of the project is in Moorhead, Minnesota which is a border city to Fargo, North ...
The Pine Ridge Project: Revitalizing the Forgotten
(2013)
This project ventures to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in western South Dakota. The reservation is home to a rich culture of Lakota Sioux Native Americans that, unfortunately, are living in one of the most impoverished ...
Emerging connections : developing transit corridors in Minneapolis-St. Paul
(2014)
A new era is coming to St. Paul’s Hamline-Midway neighborhood on the rails of the new Green Line light rail extension. There is a potential for the Green Line expansion to bring about a flourish of growth and positive ...
Designed Desirable: Deteriorating Urban Communities Renewed
(2012)
This thesis studies how designers and planners can create a desirable community in the
deteriorating urban communities affected by urban sprawl. By its nature this project is a community
planning effort. The results of ...
Symbiotic beachfront design : sharing Southeast Florida's coast with sea turtles
(2015)
This urban beachfront design project is a unique approach to sustainable beachfront design development because it focuses on creating a symbiotic relationship between humans and a sensitive turtle habitat, rather than ...
Mining the Past: A Celebration of History and Culture in Minnesota's Iron Range
(2012)
This project examines how the development of brownfields can benefit local communities and ecologies. Reclamation-based design principles are used to propose remediation of contaminated soils and the adaptive reuse of ...