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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. ... -
Pier Pressure: Addressing Ecological Opportunities of Nearshore Infrastructure in Lake Washington’s Union Bay
Along much of Seattle’s freshwater shorelines, seemingly isolated problems like erosion and shading are compounded and repeated by docks, piers, and houseboats. This results in a much bigger ecological problem: the erasure ... -
Planning for Pest Readiness: Building Climate Resilience in Seattle’s Urban Forest with a Community-centric Approach
The urban forest not only plays an important role in providing ecological benefits, but it is also positively associated with public health, especially for communities of color and low-income people who already suffer from ... -
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 ... -
Playing on the Spectrum: Exploring How to Create Playgrounds More Accessible for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Playground design in the United States fails to address the needs of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). As an exploratory study of the importance of play and the obstacles playground environments create for ... -
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 ... -
Radical Cannabis Ecologies: A Regenerative Approach to Cannabis Farms in The Emerald Triangle
Over the past 150 years, the forest ecosystems of California’s Northwestern Coast have been dramatically altered, first through a century of intensive logging followed by 50 years of illicit cannabis cultivation. Combined, ... -
Rainforest, Airport, Park: Navigating extractive entanglements through the synthesis of infrastructure and ecological function in Iquitos, Peru
Urban landscapes have become characterized by static, impervious systems, disconnected from the surrounding ecology. In Iquitos, a city of half-a-million in the Peruvian Amazon, attempts to replace natural systems with ... -
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, ... -
Recommoning Ground: Community Land Trusts and Urban Commons
The most pressing problems facing cities are rooted in the relationship between people and commodified lands. Community Land Trusts (CLT) are models that have potential to not only address these issues, but also the urban ... -
Reframing Farmworker Justice, Decolonizing Land Stewardship
The following work is a speculative design project about rethinking the future of our current industrialized agricultural system as a community-based, reciprocal system led by the very people who are currently exploited ... -
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 ... -
Reimagining the amphibious city: from health data to ecological design in an Amazonian informal community
Water circumnavigates the Amazon River Basin’s urban centers blurring lines between city and river. As Amazonian cities swell, growing populations inhabit the seasonally flooding edges of the urban landscape. These amphibious ... -
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 ... -
Remaking Post-Industrial Aesthetics through Community Engagement
This thesis proposes the use of an aesthetic lens to understand the post-industrial landscape and public engagement on the site. Remediation is often focused on the post-industrial landscape which rarely results in specific ...