Landscape Architecture Theses: Recent submissions
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crime framework: designing for crime prevention
(2012)Crime changes the social perception of the first time visitor and returning user and their ability to adapt in a changing environment while establishing their role in a community that is currently influenced by inclusionary ... -
Healing an Environment and Feeding a Population
(2012)The intent of this design thesis is to examine a sustainable solution for an urban plan in southwest Fargo that includes using urban agriculture as a tool to encourage recycling gray water and promoting a solution to the ... -
Resurgent Ecologies: A Blue Design
(2012)This thesis explores a waterless neighborhood in Las Vegas. “Blue design” explores water conservation efforts through design and community planning. The intent of this project is to identify new and innovative ways to ... -
Learning from the 'Lost Forty'
(2012)This thesis focuses on the reimagining of Riverside Park in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to incorporate the principles of successional ecosystems found in the “Lost Forty” to produce a demonstration park that promotes walkability ... -
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 ... -
the THIRD: Space of Place in Transit-orientated Development
(2012)This thesis project introduces an urban design concept into the residential suburb of New Hope, Minnesota, connecting social interaction and movement to the hub of the city center. It will illustrate the notion that suburban ... -
Mining the Past: A Celebration of History and Culture in Minnesota's Iron Range
(2012)This project examines how the development of brownfields can benefit local communities and ecologies. Reclamation-based design principles are used to propose remediation of contaminated soils and the adaptive reuse of ... -
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 ... -
An Underwater Approach
(2012)“An Underwater Approach” is a series of theoretical premises that will develop into a master plan design. City planning and community involvement projects will be targeted at improving viability and awareness in an ... -
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 ... -
Solvay Coke and Gas
(2011)This project is meant to explore the idea of how Vacant heavy industrial zones can have different uses than existing industrial sites across America. The idea is to use sustainable design to minimize the polution rate, ... -
Resilience: Cooperation of Social and Ecological Systems
(2011)Within recent years there has been a monumental awareness put towards environmental sustainability and resilience in response to the effects of humankind's continued imposition on existent ecological processes. Whether ... -
Social Corridors
(2011)Social Corridors will demonstrate that recreational corridors in communities will increase the social and economic values to residents of a community. The project explores all the fundamental aspects of a passive ... -
Urban Endemics: Protecting Imperiled Species
(2011)This thesis project will explore the requirements for a botanical garden and associated grounds, within the city of Fargo, North Dakota. A key element includes the addition of micro-climates suitable for the introduction/ ... -
Community, Resilience and Wetlands
(2011)Through a wetland introduction and interaction, residents can be educated and benefit in a socio-ecological manner. I want to create a place in Woodbury, Minnesota that uses a wetland to not only enhance the beautification ... -
Resilience To Our Decaying Urban Infrastructure
(2011)In what ways can environmentally functioning plants reverse the decay of urban infrastructure and reveal the lack of visibility in areas that are left abandoned, unrecognized and unnoticed? The project typology in this ... -
Diverse Community Center - Fargo, ND
(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 ... -
Reed Street Yards - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(2011)This project is meant to explore the idea of low carbon development in cities post global peak oil. Milwaukee, like many other Rust Belt cities across the United States, has passed its industrial peak and today is left ... -
Community School
(2011)This thesis is intended to transfer urban theory to a rural place in such a way that it respects rural systems, and the result will be a hybrid solution. A design process will be set up to investigate the possibilities of ...