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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 ...
Selling the system
(2014)
Reconnecting to a Forgotten River: An Ecological Solution
(2012)
Waterways are a vital and productive resource to our
environment. Rivers provide a variety of amenities and services to communities across the world such as drinking water, food, travel, recreation, wildlife habitat, ...
Mayo Gardens
(2014)
This thesis is an urban design project hybridizing architecture and landscape architecture. The relationship between landscape architecture and architecture reveals three basic modes which will be studied: contrast, merger, ...
Cascade Creek revitalizing community
(2014)
Located adjacent to downtown Rochester, MN are three neighborhoods that are in the midst of revitalizing their housing infrastructure. Each neighborhood is taking steps to become a viable family neighborhood
with a developed ...
Improving Physical Health
(2012)
Urban environments designed with the pedestrian as the primary user encourage more physical activity and promote lifelong physical health. The obesity rate in the United States for adults “eighteen and older tripled from ...
Repurposing Central Avenue SE : a multimodal urban cyclist corridor
(2015)
Many countries, cities, and communities have recently set out new policy frameworks to support growth of non-motorized transportation, creating a multimodal environment. This paper examines the repurpose and redesign of ...
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 ...
The Soup Bowl in the City of Lakes
(2013)
Minneapolis residents value parks for many contributions to the public realm – as a green escape from the city, as opportunities for recreation, as places to gather – but few people think of parks as infrastructure, as ...
Point of Pines Ecolodge: Promoting Educational Awareness and Resource Management Through Energy, Food and Water Conservation in North Central Minnesota
(2017)
As first world countries become more conscious of the carbon footprint in the environment, many resorts continue to excessively use natural resources. This
thesis intends to redesign the existing prototype in resorts by ...