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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...