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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 ... -
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 the focused on the post-industrial landscape which rarely results in ... -
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 ...