Browsing Landscape Architecture Theses by Subject "City planning."
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Community Fabrication
(2010)This thesis set out to design for multiple people and their particular uses. To combine the desires of many and influence the way that they all use the space. Each user has defined different outcomes for the area, with no ... -
Community Resilience: Investing in Walkability
(2011)Currently, Main Avenue is lacking character and connection to the rest of Fargo, North Dakota. Most of Main Avenue is zoned commercial, and it appears to be highly industrialized because of full scale billboards, concrete ... -
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 ... -
HOLOSCENE: High Performance Landscape Systems
(2012)This work studies landscape infrastructural solutions to community health. It addresses the health, sustainability, and resilience of habitated environments. The work suggests an interconnected working landscape system of ... -
Oil Rush Urbanism: Planning For When the Landscape Is Quiet Again
(2013)Williston, ND and surrounding counties are experiencing a tremendous influx of people from all over the United States. Throughout the Williston basin the consequences of over production of infrastructure and housing ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Sustainable Lakeshore Tourism
(2012)This thesis examines the importance of urban lakeshore waterfronts for they are merely large wetlands, that play a crucial role in maintaining eco-balance, protecting bio-diversity, and replenishing underground water ... -
Virtual Space | Creating A Digital Sense of Place
(2013)The recent advancements in computer technology in the 21st century have changed the way many designers work in offices today. New computer software has allowed us to actualize works of landscape architecture that could ... -
White and Black, No Room For Gray: Why We Need Contrast To Be Green
(2013)The American Dream is to have a good job in the city, a house and family on your own parcel in a good suburb and nice car or three in the driveway; the bigger the property the better. When one looks at the modern city in ...