Landscape Architecture Theses: Recent submissions
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The Transitional Community: Integrating Students into the Community of St. Joseph, MN
(2013)Community design’s primary benefactors are the home owners and children forgetting about the young adults of the community. In some towns, but especially college towns, the population of young adults is the majority and ... -
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 ... -
Urbanscape Revitalization
(2012)This thesis will seek to explore how Landscape Architecture, through strategic urban design and planning, can be instrumental to improving the unstable population within Urban communities. Such horrific decay of urban areas ... -
Urban Water: Seeking Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Connections
(2012)Water is an essential element for human life, not only is it a biological requirement of the human body, it is also an inherent part of our everyday lives. It is so common in everyday life that it is being overused. Due ... -
Seeds To Grow | A Community led greenway
(2012)Project-based learning can positively influence community in the normally reactionary design of a riparian greenway. This thesis examines how a greenway system can affect a community by allowing its residents to play an ... -
Healing Life
(2012)This project aims to explore the design of healing gardens with plant materials and paths, as well as the role they play in the healing process. Landscape architects have the ability and knowledge to create usable spaces ... -
Reconnecting to a Forgotten River: An Ecological Solution
(2012)Waterways are a vital and productive resource to our environment. Rivers provide a variety of amenities and services to communities across the world such as drinking water, food, travel, recreation, wildlife habitat, ... -
Seattle's Urban Water
(2012)The issue of stormwater runoff is a major threat to the water supply of Seattle, Washington. Continual rain and great expanses of impervious surfaces cause contamination and pollution to riddle the waters of the Puget ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Community Connections
(2012)A university community in the Midwest will need to increase in density to accommodate an expanding population. This design thesis examines how density and growth can be accomplished while improving the quality of life for ... -
Unwanted Inevitability
(2012)According to the USDA, The upper midwest as well as the rest of the regions of the United States have been in a climatic wet-cycle since 1993. Excess precipitation has lead to increased flood likliness. In many countries ... -
Hollowed Ground
(2012)This research explores how to enhance relationships between wetlands and toxic mining sites using phytoremediation. By creating a site that is interactive for visitors, it is intended to educate and enrich their experiences ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Isolated Urban Places & Spaces: A Rails-With-Trails Solution (Fargo, ND)
(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 ... -
Waterfront Discovery
(2012)Water possesses a fundamental energy that allows for a unique biodiversity of organisms to inhabit this planet. It has long been an overlooked resource on this Earth and for that reason I would like to use its inherent ... -
Growing Green with Phytoremediation
(2012)This thesis is premised on the basis that students benefit from both theoretical and practical applications. In this project, I have created an outdoor, interactive space that demonstrates the intersection between the ... -
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 ...