Browsing Landscape architecture by Title
Now showing items 62-81 of 111
-
Native Cultural Design: Exploring Design to Address Historical Trauma and Assist with Village Relocation on the Quinault Indian Nation in Taholah, WA
Native American communities are in need of improvement, which I attribute to historical trauma from the deplorable acts that Native American communities have gone through. Historical trauma creates difficulties for the ... -
Negotiating Ballard's Missing Link of the Burke-Gilman Trail: How Bicycle Infrastructure Can Integrate A Sustainable Design Solution
As cities expand and evolve, urban infrastructure systems must become multifunctional, complementing one another in efficient ways that create synergies and contribute to the resilience and livability of our built environment. ... -
Oasis of Resilience, Healing and empowering Syrian Children in Za'atari refugee camp
This thesis, Oasis of Resilience, presents the challenges Syrian refugee children faced during the years of war in Syria and continue to face in Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan. Recasting the physical environment as an ... -
On the Edge
Although edges are often dismissed as a simple boundary or fringe aspect of design, their true nature is much more complex and richer. Their power lies in the fact they are neither separators or unifiers, describers of ... -
Our Landscape, Ourselves: Integrating Process and Traditional food Principles for Wellbeing + Resilience in the Swinomish Tribal Community
As the first Native American tribe to create a Climate Adaptation Plan in 2010, the Swinomish Tribal Community in Western Washington have identified their vulnerabilities both in the present day with respect to mental and ... -
Overlooked: Balancing Habitat and Access in Seattle's Shoreline Street Ends
With rapidly increasing density, increasingly wealthier residents that prefer waterfront real estate and state laws allowing privatization of the shorelines, rights of way and water access are two critically important ... -
Perception + Precision: An Exploratory Process Towards Generative Site Analysis
Site analysis plays a vital role in the relationship between landscape architects and the places they work to understand and enhance. As an arm of the design process, site analysis finds its place in every project. ... -
Planning for Self-Organized Homeless Camps: Policy, Community Relations, and Locational Process
(2014-04-30)This thesis explores the policies, community relations, and locational process of self-organized homeless camps, in particular Camp Unity Eastside during their stay in Kirkland. The first chapter covers the importance of ... -
Prison Landscapes: A landscape prototype in a transitional facility for the reintegration of prerelease inmates in Thailand
This thesis investigates landscapes in the minimum-security correctional setting and proposes a landscape prototype in a transitional type of prison in Thailand. Through public collaboration and rehabilitative programs, ... -
Providing Connections: A Wetland Boardwalk
(2013-02-25)As part of their Northwest Stream Center located in Snohomish County, Washington, Adopt-a-Stream Foundation plans to add a boardwalk route through the wetland site adjacent to their building to provide an outdoor learning ... -
PUBLIC SPACE BETA: Gamification For An Engaged Participatory Landscape Design
This thesis will explore the potential scenario for the future of participatory landscape design (PLD) through the employment of an interactive approach, specifically gamification. This may provide an alternative perspective ... -
Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands: Strengthening Diversity for Community Resilience
This thesis examines the relationship of cultural diversity and public space design in the context of an 8.25-acre site in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Though existing research directly on this ... -
Recapturing a Cultural Landscape: The Past and Future Character of the Haller Gardens
ABSTRACT Recapturing a Cultural Landscape: The Past and Future Character of the Haller Gardens Doris J. McMahon Cultural landscapes are vital community repositories because they provide opportunities for learning about ... -
RECLAIMING THE LAND: EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF UNDERUTILIZED SPACES IN URBAN REGENERATION
Development patterns in cities across the world in the 20th century have shown a propensity towards preparing cities more efficiently for automobiles. This has led to the enormous sprawl-like growth in urban areas, ... -
Regenarative toxicity Research and Proposals for Alleviating Soil Degradation, Reconstructing Local Infrastructure and Re-visioning future of Bien Hoa Air Base, Viet Nam.
This thesis is focusing on understanding the facts of the historical expenditure and effects of chemical weapons meanwhile exploring the methods to restore the ecological situation of former military facilities, and to ... -
Reifying Optimism, Solidarity and Empathy: Articulating Curriculum as Basis for Land-Based Youth Leadership
The purpose of this thesis is to propose land-based learning tools for use in urban public-school education. The main question of this thesis is: How can urban public-school curriculum cultivate urban land stewards with ... -
Reinventing the Space in Between:Urban Lilong Community Design in North Sichuan Road, Shanghai
(2012-09-13)As one of the most emerging cities in East Asia, Shanghai is undertaking incredible urban transformations, including the addition of striking modern infrastructures and the disappearing of historical fragments. Old Lilong ... -
Remixing the Landscape Architecture History Class
The pedagogical goals for landscape architecture history courses required as part of the curriculum in professional degree programs in landscape architecture vary from school to school. One goal of some of these courses ... -
Resurfacing the Topographic Imagination: landform, representation, & process
While social and environmental challenges are the focus of much of contemporary practice, the role of technical skills and basic knowledge of land manipulation has been marginalized within landscape architecture. This ... -
Rethinking the Right-of-Way: Exploring Seattle's Autonomous Future
This thesis works to investigate the potential effects autonomous vehicles may have on the built environment. The objective of this thesis is to creatively explore a future scenario in which there has been a total shift ...