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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 Landfill re-morial : a postmodern reclamation of the City of Fargo landfill(2015) Okigbo, KeneThis thesis takes a quantitative look at closed landfills to determine a feasible and sustainable solution that can be used in the City of Fargo Landfill, which is expected to close between 2019 and 2023 without a post-closure plan. The solution proposed is the creation of a recreational park for the Fargo-Moorhead community. Some of the elements included within this park are Habitational Winter Sports Hills, Biproduct Management Sculptures, and Interactive Outdoor Sculpture Classrooms. The intent behind these amenities is to create year-round uses for the park, which will attract site users and allow them to remember the experience. The design of this park has two purposes. The first is to make an amenity of value for the community. The second purpose is to educate the people of Fargo-Moorhead about how their waste management practices can be changed and how a cradle-to-cradle mentality in waste management is beneficial to them.Item An Immersive Sensory Experience: Revitalizing Touchmark Senior Living Community(North Dakota State University, 2021) Minette, MorganThis thesis project focuses on providing a unique sensory expereince for residents, employees, and visitors at Touchmark at Harwood Groves, a local senior living community. This is a large complex that houses independent and assisted living, as well as a memory care unit. The full site is approximately 14 acres but this project will focus on a 2 acre portion that is currently open for developement. There is a growing need for accessible outdoor spaces within senior living communities. Many of these facilities lack proper outdoor amenities for active ageing and healing. The aging population is consistantly growing, but accessable and engaging outdoor accomodations for them are falling behind in growth. The goal for this project is to create an outdoor space that encourages residents to spend more time outside and to lead a healthy avtice lifestyle surroudned by nature. This setting also promotes visitation by family and friends. By reimagining the vacant space at Touchmark, a large interactive sensory garden will enhance the experience of residents at touchmark.Item Great escapeway : connecting North Dakota State University to downtown Fargo(2015) Latham, RobertThe primary focus of this thesis is to demonstrate how the Great Northern Rail Corridor, located in Fargo, North Dakota, can be repurposed into a greenway that connects North Dakota State University and its students with Downtown Fargo. This site proposal accommodates bicyclists and pedestrians by providing users with a pragmatic and scenic greenway. The proposal’s result, according to its author, is a design that provides not only a safe passage between the main and downtown campuses, but a community recreational facility, offering cycling, walking, cross-country skiing, running, ice skating and picnicking.Item Smart Streets: Envisioning Autonomous Mobility through Active Spaces and Economic Design Practices in Fargo, North Dakota(North Dakota State University, 2018) Zens, TrevorSafety 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 modes of transportation such as bikes and autonomous vehicles tied into a much larger system in the FM area. With the addition of new automated technologies re-balancing the right-of-way will challenge the norm. In doing this I will not expand the streets but relocate street spaces to be more active and sustainable using technology to manage the public realm in a more active way. Lastly, I will implement a real-time management system to make these proactive streets feasible. In hitting on these four major points the spatial benefit of autonomous urban campus planning will flourish into a real-life solution that we all can benefit from.Item Prairie Park: An Ecological Wetland Proposal & Recreational Destination for North Fargo(2016) Bladow, NathanThe city of Fargo, ND, has approximately 40 stormwater detention and retention basins throughout the city. Many of which are vast open grass fields with concrete channels that do not support or welcome human interaction. These areas are dry, not holding stormwater, other than in the event of a severe storm. The following research focuses on the integration of a stormwater system that allows for stormwater detention basins to be more appealing and usable for recreation at all times. Questions answered in the research are those such as: How much water needs to be detained in case of severe weather? Are the existing stormwater detention basins in Fargo sized appropriately and efficiently? Is there an alternative way to deal with the detention of stormwater that would allow for detention basins to be utilized for recreational purposes? What type of activities should the spaces support? The end result uses ideas from related projects along with new ideas that offer an alternative way for the detention of stormwater that allows the site to function as a stormwater detention basin, but serve as an inviting area for recreation and relaxation to the public at all times. The development of a stormwater system that allows for the coexistence of stormwater detention function, along with features that would attract people would allow students of NDSU and people of Fargo to have a more usable space at all times of the year.Item 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) Czeck, ElizabethHospitals 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 complain of lack of sleep, depressive moods, reduced appetite, and fatigue. Are these symptoms due to their treatment or the hospital environment? Historically, hospitals were designed around open-air halls and courtyards with walking paths and plantings. This design offered patients a chance to walk around, access to fresh air and views of nature. As the 20th century evolved, medical professionals became increasingly aware of the benefits of sterilization and as a result "form followed function." Gray walls and incandescent lights replaced nature views and natural sunlight. While these new environments provided positive results in reduced infection rates, elements of mental and environmental health were increasingly deteriorated. The purpose this thesis is to explore how landscape architects and medical professionals can work together to influence and create environments that promote all aspects of healing.Item The Green Line: Promoting Safety and Connections Through a Year Round Bicycle Network for Fargo, North Dakota.(2016) Eide, EverettThis paper will define what qualities make bicycle paths and lanes safe and easy to see. Winter maintenance strategies that are successful in ensuring year round use will be defined as well. First, data from various sources is gathered to determine factors that can allow a bike path or lane to be safe and enjoyable to ride on for all seasons. Data that will be researched will consist of: 1. Comparing different types of bike paths and their specific qualities such as width and paint coloring. 2. Road speeds and widths. 3. Winter maintenance plans used in other cities and determining what they did and how they maintained their bike pathways Secondly, Existing community data consisting of surveys and city plans will be collected to determine what the community of Fargo would like to see in the city of Fargo’s bike network, this will be done by: 1. Contacting organizations focused on bicycles and transportation to see what they would like to see. 2. Study case studies to see how different types of interventions were viewed by the community. 3. Collect existing survey relating to bicycle infrastructure and past project to deter mine overall public approval of increasing the existing bicycle network. Third, Data provided from the City of Fargo will be collected. Data will consist of past projects relating to transportation specifically codes and regulations focusing on cyclists, City GIS data and city plans. Using this data will help determine: 1. What factors make a path a bicycle path. 2. What are the limitations found here in Fargo 3. What has been done thus far. Lastly, the research gathered is used to create a bike path that is approved by the city and its people and is both safe and enjoyable to be on.Item 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) Montoya, CarlosThe 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 sustained decline. As an effort to revitalize these spaces and curb this declining trend, developers and designers have applied urban infill techniques to declining mall sites. In many cases these techniques have proven to be an insufficient intervention to produce lasting results. This ineffectiveness, raises the need for new archetype in the language methodology of design. The site of shopping malls are largely generic in dimensionality and building footprint, making them ideal candidate for the use of a parametric network analysis software. This thesis will take the site of an existing mall, approximately 100 acres in area, with a 1/2 mile x 1/2 mile perimeter. A parametric network analysis software will be applied on the selected site to generate an optimized circulation network. The resulting network will act as the primary guideline tool, from which the infill redesign of the selected site with be organized. The design synthesis of urban infill principles and parametric network analysis, will yield a new archetypal design model for the retrofit design of declining shopping malls.Item Retrofitting Suburban Plains: Creating a Walkable Mixed-use Neighborhood for South Fargo(2016) Gedrose, JordanThis thesis aims to retrofit existing infrastructure and future development plans for a south Fargo neighborhood in order to transform the neighborhood into a walkable mixed-use urban center. Walkability is defined by providing a diverse mix of destinations within a five to ten minute walk along well maintained transportation corridors. A mixed-use urban center enhances walkability by providing a culturally significant neighborhood that locates residential, retail, commercial, and open spaces within close proximity of one another. The research examines smart growth urban planning principles along with implemented urban center designs from around the nation, focusing on the integration of building usages and placements, street networks, and open spaces. The research is then applied to design a retrofit plan for the 320 acre Urban Plains neighborhood in south Fargo.