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North Woods: Promoting Phytoremediation Design Techniques and Public Educational Opportunities for the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant
(2017)
As the human population
increases and expands from growing urban
environments, many pressures are imposed
on the undeveloped natural wetlands.
Traditional practices of land development
produce high amounts of risk for ...
The Refuge: Enabling Transformative Healing and Educational Advancements through the Integration of Urban Agricultural Techniques in Detroit Lakes, MN
(2017)
Current urban agriculture is comprised of a variety of typologies and each are applied in site specific ways thus creating a vast web of possibilities when trying to implement the ideology of urban farming into a new ...
O'Donnell Park: Enhancing Downtown Milwaukee’s Economic, Environmental and Social Networks through Sustainable Design
(2017)
This thesis begins to address, how does a city provide essential resources for a city in a public urban space? A question designers have asked themselves since the beginning of urban design. In this day and age currently, ...
Sheyenne National Grasslands: An Ecological Learning Center and Trail Enhancement in Ransom and Richland Counties of North Dakota
(2017)
In the last few decades, more and more land has been converted to farmland
and developed land, destroying natural habitats that can never be fully restored to their original diversity
despite restoration efforts. ...
OKITSUKAZE: Enhancing San Diego’s Urban Coastal Development through the Exploration of Wind Patterning and Adaptation
(2017)
This project deals with the wind, one of the most familiar phenomenon that affects our outside activity. When in the summer, the breath under the tree will give to your comfortable break time. However, the wind suddenly ...
Play Streets: Integrating safe and engaging play opportunities for children into the streetscape network of Lowertown, St. Paul Minnesota
(2017)
The following project addresses the idea that play should be integrated into streetscape design to create a more interactive and stimulating play environment for children living in urban environments. The project discusses ...
Point of Pines Ecolodge: Promoting Educational Awareness and Resource Management Through Energy, Food and Water Conservation in North Central Minnesota
(2017)
As first world countries become more conscious of the carbon footprint in the environment, many resorts continue to excessively use natural resources. This
thesis intends to redesign the existing prototype in resorts by ...
Summit's Rally: Preserving the ecological systems of the Ross Lake Rec. Area and the North Cascades National Park through recreational education
(2017)
This project explores the central issues surrounding the Northern Cascades National Park (NCNP) complex, and their relationships to the conservation efforts and protocol of the park’s system. These issues are: local ...
Roberts Alley Revamp: Introducing and Implementing Pedestrian Design Principles (Complexity, Transparency & Human Scale) in Fargo, ND
(2017)
Alleys are underutilized as contemporary pedestrian thoroughfares because they have historically served to hide the utilitarian functions of urban life. Thus, the narrow spaces fail to provide the necessary amenity required ...
Community (Make) Shift: Bringing urban communities together through the activation of underutilized spaces with social programming in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
(2017)
In current times society is gravitating towards urban communities. Although cities have higher amounts of people per proximity in these areas, it does not stop people from feeling lonely. Loneliness is defined as the ...