Browsing Landscape Architecture Theses by Subject "Minnesota."
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4th And Sustainable: A Balanced Design Approach For The Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (Arden Hills, MN)
(2013)With a lack of appreciation and the underestimation of the importance and benefits a sustainable ecosystem can provide in today’s society, it has become a topic that needs to be tended to. A great way to approach the ... -
Adaptation : transforming existing transit systems for Millennials
(2014)The Millennial Generation, also known as Generation Y, has a different philosophy than previous generations when it comes to transportation and housing. According to Shyam Kannan, vice president at RCLCO, a leading real ... -
Bringing Nature Indoors: Tetris Landscaping
(North Dakota State University, 2021)According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average American spends 93% of their life indoors. Almost 70% of which is at home. By being indoors there is a greater chance of being exposed to higher ... -
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 ... -
Climate Refuge: Thermal Comfort in Urban Micro Climates
(North Dakota State University, 2020)This study addresses two major issues by responding to the significant decline in retail buildings including enclosed shopping malls and improving density, livability and human comfort in communities welcoming climate ... -
Collision Course: Leveraging Open Space Conservation and Public Education to Minimize Bald Eagle Aircraft Strikes in St. Paul, Minnesota
(North Dakota State University, 2018)While many of us travel on an airplane day to day, the responsibility that pilots take on from boarding to deboarding is intensely high. Many considerable things could go wrong, and being responsible for many lives puts ... -
Creating Celebrations, Food, and Spaces
(2012)The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood currently has one community garden dedicated to children. The neighborhood is one of the poorest in the city and is very ethnically diverse. With the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Emerging connections : developing transit corridors in Minneapolis-St. Paul
(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 ... -
Ford Park: Creating Hydrologically Sensitive Connections to the Mississippi Riverfront System
(2016)The main question this study aims to answer is how can we create an urban space that celebrates the riverfront at all times of the year, while still creating viable flood protection? Other questions considered are, what ... -
Game Play: Promoting Park Retention, Physical Activity, and Social Interaction in Central Minneapolis through Pokemon GO
(North Dakota State University, 2018)It’s become increasing obvious how technology has impacted and influenced our everyday lives. People are constantly on their phones, laptops, tablets, or gaming consoles for entertainment and staying connected with their ... -
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 ... -
Growing greenways : a multimodal trail system for Moorhead, Minnesota
(2015)The following thesis relates to the Fargo-Moorhead buyouts for the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion. More specifically it will be focuses on Moorhead’s side of the Red River and their additional concern of the results of the ... -
Healing Heights
(2014)This thesis examines reasons why the Children’s Hospital Minneapolis campus is a location that benefits from a therapeutic green roof. Healing Heights will bring meaning and life to an otherwise conventional roof that is ... -
Heritage | Heart of the Community
(2012)This thesis explores small urban city revitalization. When small cities outlast the function of their own infrastructure, city revitalization needs to focus on how the city is functioning overall. City infrastructure is ... -
Hippotherapy Sensory Trails in Stewartville, MN
(North Dakota State University, 2021)This thesis will focus on healthcare and therapeutic design with the major focus being hippo-therapy trails for young individuals with anxiety, depression and Sensory Processing Disorder. Hippo-therapy or equine therapy ... -
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 ... -
In the Loop: Making Historically Conscious Pedestrian Connections
(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 ... -
Instascape: Employing Social Media to Connect the Physical and Cultural Environment in Duluth’s Downtown Waterfront
(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 ...