Browsing Landscape architecture by Title
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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 ... -
Sharing Cities: Catalysts for Developing New Models for Urban Space
“Sharing city” is a prevalent worldwide term now in the context of the emerging sharing economy. This thesis will refine the term of “sharing economy” first and keep investigating the possible current and potential future ... -
Shifting Shorelines: a process-based approach to sea level rise resilience in Grays Harbor estuary
As sea levels rise, estuarine settlements and ecosystems alike must respond to inundation. How can this planetary phenomenon inform place-based resilience? This thesis explores the intersection of historical ecology and ... -
SITE 1121 - FIELD NOTES Revealing Deep Form as a Basis for Urban Landscape Design
What happens when you open the gate on an abandoned urban site and invite people simply to explore what is there? Site 1121- Field Notes establishes a unique landscape design method for immersive site investigation. The ... -
Small-Scale Manufacturing & Production of Place
The premise of this thesis is that small-scale manufacturing plays a critical role in revitalizing our industrial communities back into productive urban districts. This thesis explores a new phase of urban manufacturing ... -
The Social Act of Bicycling: Designing Bicycle Facilities to Foster Social Interaction
(2013-07-25)While sociologists and designers in the last half century have acknowledged that the pedestrian experience is a critical part of the urban landscape, it is time to recognize that the bicyclist, like the pedestrian, is an ... -
The Social Feasibility of Roadside Raingardens: A Compendium of Siting, Design and Engagement Tools
(2012-09-13)This study is offered as a professional project in collaboration with Seattle Public Utilities, City of Seattle. It examines two fundamental components of urban public infrastructure: roads/public right-of-way space and ... -
soilcraft | a necessary fiction
This thesis employs design fiction as a practice to suspend belief and present alternative urban soil futures. A recent expansion of classification by soil scientists to better describe and qualify industrial soil types ... -
Something new under the sun : physiosocial landscape interventions for the Holy Child Program, a school for children with behavioral difficulties in Beit Sahour, Palestine
As we work to improve life for everyone on this earth, it is important to identify circumstances where societal ills reseed themselves. I am curious about finding ways to address destructive cyclical behavior, to productively ... -
Songlines and Groundlines: Music and Landform Shaping Each Other
(2012-09-13)This thesis examines similarities in music composition and landscape architectural composition, towards establishing a hybrid practice. The thesis considers landscapes and pieces of music to both be "places", as designed ... -
Spanning the Gaps: Integrating Site, Stakeholders, and Context to Enhance Vegetation Management at Seattle City Light
Management of vegetation on transmission line right of ways depends on a multitude of factors. Vegetation managers must respond not only to the physical parameters of a site - such as topography and line height - but also ... -
Spanning The Rural Urban Divide: Toward an Expanded Theory of Landscape Architecture
(2013-02-25)There is currently a dominant <italic>urban narrative</italic> in contemporary landscape architectural theory that tends to situate landscape architectural theory in a metropolitan context. Although individual practitioners ... -
Speculating a Post-Border Wall Landscape: Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands as a Space for Children
The landscape of the United States and Mexico borderlands is a particularly hostile one for the children who inhabit it. This thesis explores children’s experiences in the borderlands of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, and ... -
Stories from the Ethnoburbs: Tracing Cherished Foods Through Space and Time
This thesis celebrates food traditions of immigrant families in the west San Gabriel Valley—my home, a region of Los Angeles County notable for its majority Latinx and Asian American population. In 1997, Wei Li first coined ... -
Strategizing Critical Habitat Restoration for Military Bases: An Exploration of Prairies on Joint Base Lewis-McChord
The decline of ecological habitats has led to the increased listing of endangered species (Haddad et al., 2015). U.S. military installations require complex environments to train soldiers for a variety of missions, and ... -
STRIVING TOWARDS ZERO WASTE THROUGH LANDSCAPE DESIGNS AND PROGRAMS IN U DISTRICT
This thesis presents a research-based design for Seattle’s University District that aims to make the district cleaner, generate less waste, and reduce its ecological footprint. The key strategies proposed are based on an ... -
"Such Infinite Distances": Visualizing Embedded Narratives in the Tacoma Smelter Plume
For nearly 100 years, the Asarco copper smelter in Ruston, Washington operated on the shore of Tacoma’s Commencement Bay, refining ore with high concentrations of arsenic. The smelter’s 562-foot smokestack — the tallest ... -
Tactile MapTile: working towards inclusive cartography
This project presents an alternative approach to understanding the pedestrian experience. Challenging the existing primacy afforded to vision, this work takes a tactile approach. Physical abstractions are used as a means ... -
Terra Incognita: Speculative Landfill Futures
The amount of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) the world produces far exceeds our current infrastructural capacity. The things we throw away, while arguably benign individually, are dangerous once accumulated in large quantities. ...