Browsing Design, Architecture & Art, School of by Subject "Streetscapes (Urban design)"
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Adaptation : transforming existing transit systems for Millennials
(2014)The Millennial Generation, also known as Generation Y, has a different philosophy than previous generations when it comes to transportation and housing. According to Shyam Kannan, vice president at RCLCO, a leading real ... -
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 ... -
Festival on Fifth Street: A Multi-modal Streetscape and Cultural Center in Downtown Bismarck, North Dakota.
(2016)This thesis is a study conducted to explore the effects of revitalizing a downtown street emphasizing the pedestrian. Through research, the streetscape will be redeveloped for the safety of pedestrians as well as various ... -
The Front: Re-imagining Main Avenue in Downtown Fargo as a Multi-modal Transit Corridor
(2016)As cities strive to become more walkable, considerate of bicyclists, and more accommodating of mass transit, one has to ask how current arterial roadways can be retrofitted to allow for all modes of transportation. Downtown ... -
GI JOE: Green Infrastructure for the Average Joe
(2012)The landscape that supports our cities is often invisible to its inhabitants. This thesis examines how landscape infrastructure can communicate in our lives. The fabric of our cities stitches together the intricate systems ... -
Heritage | Heart of the Community
(2012)This thesis explores small urban city revitalization. When small cities outlast the function of their own infrastructure, city revitalization needs to focus on how the city is functioning overall. City infrastructure is ... -
Instascape: Employing Social Media to Connect the Physical and Cultural Environment in Duluth’s Downtown Waterfront
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Eisenhower’s great uniting Interstate Highway System may have brought many communities closer to each other, but in many instances, severed them internally. We see this problem in the city of Duluth, Minnesota. The central ... -
Living Streets within Downtown Fargo: A Living Street that Focuses on the Pedestrian, Environmental, and Social Design Elements in Downtown Cores
(North Dakota State University, 2021)With downtown Fargo continuing to change with new multi-use buildings and parking garages, the focus should now be on the streets. Over the past couple years there has been multiple parking garages built within a mile of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Play Streets: Integrating safe and engaging play opportunities for children into the streetscape network of Lowertown, St. Paul Minnesota
(2017)The following project addresses the idea that play should be integrated into streetscape design to create a more interactive and stimulating play environment for children living in urban environments. The project discusses ... -
Reflection: The Las Vegas Strip - Introducing Big Data into Project Planning for User Informed Design
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Every world class city has a landmark, in Vegas it is “The Strip." Yet, this important gateway to Las Vegas venues is little more than a 10 lane downtown street controlled by stop lights. Reminiscent of 1970’s streets in ... -
Revitalization
(North Dakota State University, 2016)America has long tried to revitalize cities spending billions of dollars on wasted programs or buildings that do not help solve the problem. The solution should target the root of the problem not just cover it up. This ... -
Revitalizing Small Scale Urban Corridors
(2012)When one visits a small town or city in the Midwest, they will probably notice a sense of pride in the community. However, when rapid change, whether it long or short term, impacts the community, it can leave the residents ... -
Smart Streets: Envisioning Autonomous Mobility through Active Spaces and Economic Design Practices in Fargo, North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Safety is the top priority and designing for all users, with special attention to the pedestrian will be addressed. Next, increasing mobility on NDSU’s downtown campus will start with a design for more flexible and affordable ... -
Urban Transitions: making connections between transportation to the livable environment
(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 ... -
Urbanscape Revitalization
(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 ...