Landscape Architecture Theses: Recent submissions
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Forming Neighborhood: Creating Community Identity through Connectivity, Placemaking, and Functionality for the Urban Plains Development in Southwest Fargo
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The city of Fargo, ND has been growing steadily in recent years. This has brought up issues of urban sprawl and lack of intentional design because developers mainly just try to keep up with the demand. It is becoming a ... -
Reflection: The Las Vegas Strip - Introducing Big Data into Project Planning for User Informed Design
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Every world class city has a landmark, in Vegas it is “The Strip." Yet, this important gateway to Las Vegas venues is little more than a 10 lane downtown street controlled by stop lights. Reminiscent of 1970’s streets in ... -
Bear Den Landing: Creating Resilient Environments & Tribal Communities through Ecological Planning & Public Participation on Fort Berthold Reservation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Over half of the 135,000 miles of oil and gasoline pipelines in the U.S. were installed before 1969, with implementation of pipes occurring before maturation of steel or coating technology. Leaks and spills are becoming ... -
Sensory Overlay: Promoting Inclusivity and Accessibility for Americans with Disabilities along the Midtown Greenway in Uptown Minneapolis
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Urban spaces are often hostile environments for individuals with disabilities. The bigger American cities grow the harder they become to navigate for those with disabilities as they provide more challenges and obstacles. ... -
Exchange Optimized: Utilizing Predictive Paths of Travel to Improve Circulation Efficiency and Urban Infill Patterns, as Applied to Fargo's West Acres Mall
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The rapid expansion of American cities led to historical marketplaces morphing into ubiquitous suburban shopping malls. For the last two decade these shopping malls along with the entire retail sector has experienced a ... -
Smart Streets: Envisioning Autonomous Mobility through Active Spaces and Economic Design Practices in Fargo, North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Safety is the top priority and designing for all users, with special attention to the pedestrian will be addressed. Next, increasing mobility on NDSU’s downtown campus will start with a design for more flexible and affordable ... -
Adventures in Mimicry: Enhancing Children's Motor Skills through Imitation Play and Interactive Habitats in the Kansas City Zoo
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The creation of a collection of exhibits focused on well being, natural enrichment, and personal development for the inhabitants as well as all that visit them. To create spaces that encourage play and learning between ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Upper Harbor Terminal Park: Reconnecting Neighborhood and Linking History through Memories along a Post-Industrial River Front in North Minneapolis
(North Dakota State University, 2018)This thesis examines the potential benefits of having an open public space that can be a downtown amenity for the population of north Minneapolis. Over the coming years the state of Minnesota is experiencing growth due to ... -
Pollinator Paradise: Restoring Bee Habitat through a Recreational and Educational Park in Los Angeles, California
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Bees play an important part in our community. They pollinate over one third of all of our food. Many people do not realize the importance of bees and pollinators and their existence. How can we educate and protect such an ... -
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 ... -
Force of Nature: Encouraging Therapeutic Design and Healing through Social, Sensory and Seasonal Planning for the Stanford Broadway Medical Center
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Hospitals are revered as the epicenter of health and some doctors are even equated to gods. Modern medicine has come a long way and many lives have been spared due to medical advances of the 20th century. Yet most patients ... -
Restorative Reefs: Preserving the Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve Coral Reefs through Recreational Opportunities and Public Education
(North Dakota State University, 2018)In my thesis I will be going over ways in which as a landscape architect we may develop a solution to the destruction of our oceans. I will be diving deeper in the way we could design a way to help rebuild coral reefs help ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...