Browsing Landscape Architecture Theses by Title

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    • Crossing Paths: Landscape Planning for Human-Wildlife Balance 

      Smail, Benjamin J. (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      Design methods to reconnect the Salish and Kootenai people, as well as those permitted to visit, to their ancestral lands and historical/cultural sites as well as the safe and efficient movement of native animal species ...

    • Cully Park remediating the Willamette Waterfront of Portland 

      Windrum, Kelsey (2015)
      This thesis is a remediation greenway project with an emphasis on waterfront revitalization and phytoremediation. Researched greenways focus on the conservation, recreation, and non-motorized transportation of a maintained ...

    • Design in Rural America: Preserving the Past by Enhancing the Future, Buffalo, South Dakota 

      Lyons, Randy (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      Rural America of today is faced with major obstacles in the sense of maintaining active urban communities. Some of the factors the feed this fire are aging populations, and young people or moving away and not coming back. ...

    • Designed Desirable: Deteriorating Urban Communities Renewed 

      Hyllested, Ryan (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 ...

    • Designing For All Seasons 

      Long Voelkner, Megann (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 ...

    • Designing for Play in Island Park 

      Bartlett, Halley (North Dakota State University, 2021)
      ‘Planning for Play in Island Park’ is a design thesis based meant to identify a realistic and multifaceted response to the removal of Ash Trees (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) from Fargo North Dakota’s downtown Island Park. ...

    • Diverse Community Center - Fargo, ND 

      Pham, Kevin (2011)
      The purpose of this thesis is to create and design a place for extraordinary activities for people of diverse cultures and backgrounds within the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area. Fargo is a continually developing city ...

    • Diverse Growth: Exploring Symbiotic Tree-Human Relationships in Landscape Ecosystems to Inspire Diversity in Urban Tree Plantings at Civic Center Park in Fargo, North Dakota 

      Ceason, Colin (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      Trees and humans have a symbiotic relationship, trees provide beauty, protection, and economic gains for humans and we take care of them to live fruitful lives. They can often have multiple humans or even animal caretakers ...

    • Drifting Intersections: A Campus for Inciting Collaboration 

      Rindy, Bennett (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      Collaboration among design professionals is a crucial component of a comprehensive design solution. The proximity of minds, each providing expertise and experiences unlike the others, produces an environment ripe for ...

    • Eckelson Lakes Golf Club: Helping Golf and the Environment 

      Harris, Chris (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      Over the second half of the 20th century and early into the 21st century, the golf course industry boomed and thousands of courses were built. Beautiful courses have been carved out of unused land, mountains, prairies, ...

    • Ecological Resilient Landscapes: Averting a Pending Disaster 

      Berg, Jacob (2011)
      Scars can be inflicted on landscapes after decades of human intervention. This project is meant to embrace the effects of remedial ecological design on our fragmented landscapes. Limited human intervention is an essential ...

    • An Educational and Transitional Landscape 

      Nigg, Joseph P. (North Dakota State University, 2006)
      This project is centered on an idea for an outdoor educational facility that is directed for use by elementary age students. An interpretive, hands on approach to learning is used to highlight a variety of topics involving ...

    • Effects of stadia on their neighborhood 

      Anderson, Nicholas (2014)
      This thesis examines the effects stadia have on their neighborhoods and how they can better benefit their neighborhoods. The proposed site is in downtown Fargo, North Dakota. The project will help improve downtown through ...

    • Emerging connections : developing transit corridors in Minneapolis-St. Paul 

      Stottler, Nathan; Judovsky, Colby (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 ...

    • Exceptional Universal Design: Designing for People With Exceptionalities 

      Ensz, Shane Aaron (North Dakota State University, 2023)
      The purpose of this study is to find and realize solutions to the lack of inclusion of People with exceptionalities. To create interaction between streetscapes, parks, naturalistic landscapes, and people with exceptionalities. ...

    • Exchange Optimized: Utilizing Predictive Paths of Travel to Improve Circulation Efficiency and Urban Infill Patterns, as Applied to Fargo's West Acres Mall 

      Montoya, Carlos (North Dakota State University, 2019)
      The rapid expansion of American cities led to historical marketplaces morphing into ubiquitous suburban shopping malls. For the last two decade these shopping malls along with the entire retail sector has experienced a ...

    • Fair Catch 

      Halverson, Kai (North Dakota State University, 2022)
      What seems to be the problem? The problem is nationwide- Minnesota is just late to the party. Our privilege of 10,000(+) lakes has led us to turn somewhat of a blind eye to stormwater management. This is especially true ...

    • The Fargo Landfill: A Remediation Leading to Reuse for Refuse 

      Hejl, Phyllis Carol (North Dakota State University, 2005)
      The U.S. has approximately 3,091 active landfills which take in about 279 million tons of garbage annually (How Landfill's Work website). Since 1990, more than 11 billion tons of domestic and foreign waste has been disposed ...

    • Fargo: Growing Upward: A Neon Living Wall 

      Kumpula, Benjamin (North Dakota State University, 2020)
      There is an emotional connection humans have with plants and the aesthetics of natural elements that can directly influence our mood, productivity, and overall happiness. Emotional factors can directly impact and change a ...

    • Festival on Fifth Street: A Multi-modal Streetscape and Cultural Center in Downtown Bismarck, North Dakota. 

      Anderson, Dylan (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 ...