Browsing Landscape architecture by Title
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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 ... -
REVITALIZING WATERFRONT SPACE: EXPLORING A MIXED PARTNERSHIP MODEL IN URBAN WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT
This thesis examines the challenges facing the waterfront revitalizations in the United States and proposes a new waterfront revitalization model to address them. The goal of this new model is redeveloping the vacant ... -
Rewilding Ballard | Growing Small-Scale Community Habitat
The current magnitude of global environmental challenges, including climate change and mass species extinctions demands an intensely greater level of integration between human and natural systems. This design thesis explores ... -
Road as Recovery: Using the Urban Street Network as a Therapeutic Resource to Support Positive Mental Health
(2014-02-24)This thesis explores the therapeutic qualities of the pedestrian urban street network that support positive mental health and well-being. Mental health is an important yet often neglected aspect of modern lives and the ... -
Rootbound: Exploring Production in Seattle's Urban Forest
Scott Boetjer Rootbound: Exploring Production in Seattle’s Urban Forest Abstract The urban forest of Seattle provides many benefits and values to its inhabitants. Trees in particular play significant environmental and ... -
Rose Color Light
Spanning man’s socio-cultural evolution across six millennium, human burial has evolved from the core spiritual and ecological belief of Pre-Dynastic Egyptian culture that the dead nourished the living through agricultural ... -
Scrumptious Science: opportunities for using scientific research to increase yields in community agriculture
(2013-07-25)This thesis focuses on opportunities for landscape architects to help reduce food-related emissions through designs that increase urban agricultural production. Such a design approach necessitates a science-based understanding ...