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Item Dammed: Master Planning Along the Lower Snake River in a Post Dam-Removal Condition(North Dakota State University, 2024) Kodet, AndrewThe four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington state have numerous impacts on the surrounding environment, and although provide benefits of hydroelectric power, irrigation services, and waterway navigation that alter the state of the river and adjacent land ecologically. The question that persists is if these structures need to be maintained, replaced, or removed altogether; since like all man-made structures, they have a finite lifespan that is approaching its end. The following research and methodologies address design solutions for these dam sites in a post-removal condition through case studies, site analysis, site planning, and design interventions from a landscape architectural lens. Although total removal is not certain as it deals with the influence of many different stakeholders, for the approach it will err on the hypothesis of removal. The unique design approach will open the door for greater opportunities along the river corridor.Item Repurposing Central Avenue SE : a multimodal urban cyclist corridor(2015) Dahl, KeithMany countries, cities, and communities have recently set out new policy frameworks to support growth of non-motorized transportation, creating a multimodal environment. This paper examines the repurpose and redesign of Central Avenue SE in downtown Minneapolis as a primary route for cyclists into the downtown area. Focusing on safety of the cyclists, the research presented looks at the cyclist in a multimodal environment – more specifically, road design and connection characteristics, through a discursive approach. The research indicates that with effective design treatments, cycling can be a safe transportation system as demonstrated through the solution proposed along Central Ave, thereby increasing the public's health benefits.Item Mining the Past: A Celebration of History and Culture in Minnesota's Iron Range(2012) Aasen, MichaelThis 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 existing structures and landscapes. The focus lies in the creation of a space that exemplifies history and culture while enriching the lives of local residents and attracting future visitors. By strengthening the bond between the past and present, a stronger sense of identity will be formed along with cultural pride.Item Sustainably Symbiotic: A Study Using Lichen Biomimicry to Design a Sustainable Multi-Use Campground in Cavalier County, ND(North Dakota State University, 2023) Lonewolf, XantippeanEvaluating if designing a multi-use campground using biomorphic design relating to LICHEN could benefit the overall camping experience. The Pembina Gorge near Walhalla, North Dakota was determined as the design setting. The analysis exploration hopes to provide proficient lichen inspired campground layouts and design methods by utilizing characteristics of native lichens and the geographical and geological areas lichen thrive on. Using ArcGIS layers created from research, I will design a sustainable and educational lichen-style campground that informs users with wayfinding signage that are directional, regulatory, identification based and informational. Interpretative signs will connect users with historical and educational photos of native lichen and vital habitats, how lichens can teach us to detect air pollution before reaching dangerous levels, and how we can use native lichen design principles to design sustainably. On the ground site investigating and photo analysis of lichen species and ecosystems will possibly verify online research creating a symbiosis of mutual data. Interactive lichen displays configured to design principles of the five senses: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch could offer top experiences if applied correctly. Extended research using similar campground case studies will help build a design narrative capable of sustainability through camping experience and land management. Final design model will be concluded once all needed information regarding the project is collected and studied. Although findings would vary depending on location and lichen species, this methodology could be applied to any location wanting to explore sustainable campground development.Item Of Land, Earth + Sea: A Re-Mastered Beach Resort(North Dakota State University, 2022) Lee, SinaBeaches, resorts, and recreational activities serve as a main source of attraction for some cities across the world that reside next to large bodies of water. This often leads to cities becoming dependent on tourism for their source of income and identity. However, some resorts do not have the ability and accessibility to resources in order to become sustainable. Small towns with beach resorts often do not have facilities and equipment to progress towards a sustainable resort. The landscape surrounding a resort often can affect tourists’ comfortability and experience around the resort. A master plan emphasizing sustainability and a landscape would encourage resorts to become self-sustaining and provide the necessary resources to enable a sustainable environment. This landscape will not only provide sources for resort residents and faculty, but also serve new activities for the site. This will not only support the economy by providing jobs but will present new opportunities for programmed activities for a resort. Investigating successful sustainable resorts and programmed activities will focus on new strategies to promote green spaces for not only urban design, but resort design as well. Researching methods to accommodate mitigation within a resort will not only address safety for tropical storms, but also drainage for the site. This thesis research will provide a layout for Paradise Cove, located in Freeport Bahamas, on how this resort will incorporate a landscape design that will address the micro-climate and mitigation while also implementing new programmed activities. Nevertheless, it will also emphasize expanding the resort site in order to shelter tourists and employees in order to achieve the goal of becoming a self-sustaining resort.Item An Underwater Approach(2012) Steffen, Travis“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 economically challenged town. I will explore solutions for the city of Crisfield, MD, helping to solve its current social, economical and ecological problems. The project will focus on solutions that are both ecologically and fiscally sustainable well into the future for the town of Crisfield. The town’s proximity to the waters edge as well as its rich fishing and crabbing culture will work as a platform and base for its sustainable ecotourism prospects. Newly developed ecotourism planning as well as rebuilding of the town’s ecological problems with fishing and crabbing will help secure Crisfield a financial and ecological place into the future.Item Retrofitting for Change: Fargo(2010) Ehiemere, Chidozie13th Avenue South Fargo has gradually grown to become the City of Fargo’s commercial and residential hub since the introduction of interstates i-29 and i-94 in the late 1950’s. The region surrounding 13th avenue South has thrived as result of cheap land for development and the infusion of business ventures such as the West acres mall. This has brought an influx of business investors and residents to the area hungry for a piece of the profit and economic productivity the region has to offer. With Fargo's thriving commerce which is predominantly along 13th avenue south Fargo, population figures have been on the rise. These figures have resulted in an increase in population density within the city of Fargo. It is feared that future projected population growth within the city of Fargo especially along its commercial corridors will not be able to align with the current trends of spread development and urban sprawl that Fargo has been so used to in respects to its current planning trends. If urban sprawl and spread development are not addressed through design and planning within the city of Fargo to meet the needs of the growing population, then we will begin to see future scenario's along commercial corridors in Fargo (such as 13th Avenue South) where economic and aesthetic demise becomes a trend . This will in-turn gradually affect economic productivity and standards of living along such commercial corridors within the city of Fargo and other areas of similarity within the state of North Dakota. This thesis aims to indicate practical solutions to rectifying urban sprawl and spread development along commercial corridors such as 13th avenue south Fargo. This is being done through the implementation of urban development principles of retrofitting, infill, smart growth and urban greenification. This is all being done with the aim of catering to Fargo's present and future growing population as well as protecting and improving Fargo's economic viability for present and future inhabitants of the city.Item Community Resilience: Investing in Walkability(2011) Mellgren, AshleyCurrently, Main Avenue is lacking character and connection to the rest of Fargo, North Dakota. Most of Main Avenue is zoned commercial, and it appears to be highly industrialized because of full scale billboards, concrete buildings and lack of visual aesthetic toward the roadway, greenspace and sidewalks. This thesis investigates how balancing pedestrian and vehicular traffic could positively impact Main Avenue by increasing economic development and safety. The thesis further investigates how the integration of environmentally conscious and sustainable initiatives can contribute to the socio-economic resilience of the streetscape.Item Exceptional Universal Design: Designing for People With Exceptionalities(North Dakota State University, 2023) Ensz, Shane AaronThe purpose of this study is to find and realize solutions to the lack of inclusion of People with exceptionalities. To create interaction between streetscapes, parks, naturalistic landscapes, and people with exceptionalities. People with exceptionalities include people with a range of disabilities such as blindness, autism, and cerebral palsy. ADA compliance has gone a long way in giving opportunity of access to people with exceptionalities. These collective groups of people may have access to streetscapes, and parks, but the interactions in these spaces are slim to none. People with exceptionalities deserve the opportunity to interact with the surroundings as all other people do. The research of this Thesis study is based on not only case studies, scholarly articles and journals, but also interviewing people with exceptionalities and their acquaintances. This methodology allows the personal perspectives of the people that will use these spaces. The resulting research is defined in the adaptive design of different streetscapes, parks, and naturalistic landscapes. These findings prove as precedent of more inclusive and interactive landscape designs to come.Item The Historic Third Ward Music Corridor(North Dakota State University, 2005) Fischer, Dominic L.The urban corridor engages and accumulates unique relationships between its users and its landscape. This interaction is both visual and musical (aural) in nature. Studying similarities in musical and cultural relations I will relate the landscape to the dynamic diversity of the urban corridor user. Music, in the realm of fine art, can be a universal language; although often spoken in different dialects is as inherent as the human spirit. The underlying premise of this design is that the qualities of separate musical genres can generate linking forms, uniting disparate parts of a high density population through their physical interpretation in the landscape.