Browsing Landscape Architecture Theses by Title

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    • An Immersive Sensory Experience: Revitalizing Touchmark Senior Living Community 

      Minette, Morgan (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      This thesis project focuses on providing a unique sensory expereince for residents, employees, and visitors at Touchmark at Harwood Groves, a local senior living community. This is a large complex that houses independent ...

    • Improving Physical Health 

      Mauel, Sarah (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 ...

    • In the Loop: Making Historically Conscious Pedestrian Connections 

      Tomkinson, Christopher (2016)
      Connecting green spaces, and providing meaningful and convenient pedestrian passage are two ideas that push sustainability, encourage community activity, and create a more enjoyable environment for the users. This is the ...

    • Indian Hills Interpretive Park 

      Prosser, Amanda Marie (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      In 1998, the North Dakota Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Advisory committee met with members of the Three Affiliated Tribes and asked, "What do you want us to tell the world about your culture?" "Tell them we're still ...

    • Instascape: Employing Social Media to Connect the Physical and Cultural Environment in Duluth’s Downtown Waterfront 

      Van Der Hagen, Jordan (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 ...

    • Integrating Plains: Connecting Fargo Through a Green Roof System 

      Rydberg, Katlyn (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      The city of Fargo, ND, and the surrounding area has continually grown each year and is expected to grow in the future. With the growth is an influx in the building of homes, businesses, and roads. This growth has caused ...

    • Isolated Urban Places & Spaces: A Rails-With-Trails Solution (Fargo, ND) 

      Bossert, Alex (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 ...

    • Kansas City, Kansas: A Center for Community & Culture 

      Dahl, Elizabeth (2013)
      Community spaces play an important role in the success of a city and it’s inhabitants. They become the foundation to which those living and visiting in the area come together and communicate. They offer opportunities to ...

    • Lakeshore Design Intervention 

      Miller, Jacob (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      This study will quantify the Minnesota County's concerns with shoreline development and private landowner's concerns with the unauthorized use of purchased land due to regulations and wildlife preservation. This study ...

    • Land of 10,000 Dying Lakes: Designing for Sustainable Water Management Through Wetland Conservation and Public Recreation 

      Unruh, Zachary (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      In 2017, 169 harmful algal blooms were reported nation-wide. Existing in all water body types, saltwater or freshwater, this number is increasing every year, and Minnesota is no exception. In the land of 10,000 lakes, ...

    • Landfill re-morial : a postmodern reclamation of the City of Fargo landfill 

      Okigbo, Kene (2015)
      This thesis takes a quantitative look at closed landfills to determine a feasible and sustainable solution that can be used in the City of Fargo Landfill, which is expected to close between 2019 and 2023 without a post-closure ...

    • Learning from the 'Lost Forty' 

      Kummet, Shawn (2012)
      This thesis focuses on the reimagining of Riverside Park in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to incorporate the principles of successional ecosystems found in the “Lost Forty” to produce a demonstration park that promotes walkability ...

    • Learning to Play in Nature; an Urban Playground for Adolescents 

      Gurath, Priscilla (2013)
      This project examines the problems surrounding the increase in adverse health related issues directly relating to the decrease in society’s physical activity and exercise opportunities for adolescents in their immediate ...

    • Living Streets within Downtown Fargo: A Living Street that Focuses on the Pedestrian, Environmental, and Social Design Elements in Downtown Cores 

      Keller, Matthew (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 ...

    • Lowell Park: Reconnecting a City to Its Waterfront 

      Stein, Robert L. (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      Stillwater lies in one of the most beautiful locations in Minnesota. It harbors a rich history linked to the river and was one of the first settlements in Minnesota. As of late Stillwater’s downtown has been a hot spot ...

    • Manufactured Quality of Life: Planning for Equity, Environment and Community in a Rural Mobile Home Park 

      Brown, Abigayle (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      Over 20 million Americans reside in a mobile home park. The homes are hardly mobile and calling them a park is an exaggerated compliment. The automobile industry birthed the trailer that is now used as a permanent home. ...

    • Maverick Harmony, Rapid City, SD 

      Chapman, Samuel (North Dakota State University, 2006)
      This project is a proposal for the revitalization of downtown Rapid City. Rapid City has for the past years been growing outwards. There have been improvements to building facades. There have been new buildings constructed. ...

    • Mayo Gardens 

      Blank, Michael (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, ...

    • Mining the Past: A Celebration of History and Culture in Minnesota's Iron Range 

      Aasen, Michael (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 ...

    • Moorhead City Walk : a masterplan to reimage Moorhead, Minnesota's urban core 

      Garcia, Bradley (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 ...