Browsing Landscape architecture by Title
Now showing items 53-72 of 130
-
Historic landscape preservation : what are the most innovative cities doing to protect their historic landscapes
(1991)In 1976, the second annual national "Back to the City" conference was held in St. Paul, Minnesota. The conference offered a forum for the presentation of projects that demonstrated what people had done to revitalize their ... -
How Could Participatory Design be Catalyzed by Social Media? Improving Co-Design Efficiency and Effectiveness
With the development of the Internet and information technology, online participation is becoming an important gateway for civic engagement. Social media, with the ability to mobilize people without minimal time and spatial ... -
Immersive Realities: An Expansion Pack for Landscape Architecture
While studying abroad in Berlin, I had the experience of exploring a city the way I would explore a video game. I allowed myself to be led by curiosity, thoroughly investigated my surroundings, and was frequently delighted ... -
Infrastructural Landscape: Strategies for Post-Industrial Reuse
This thesis examines the regional challenges facing the Great Lakes and proposes a series of simultaneous multiscalar strategies to address them. The proposal activates the potential, in the greater number and area, of ... -
Infrastructural Landscape: Strategies for Post-Industrial Reuse
This thesis examines the regional challenges facing the Great Lakes and proposes a series of simultaneous multiscalar strategies to address them. The proposal activates the potential, in the greater number and area, of ... -
Infrastructural Landscape: Strategies for Post-Industrial Reuse
This thesis examines the regional challenges facing the Great Lakes and proposes a series of simultaneous multiscalar strategies to address them. The proposal activates the potential, in the greater number and area, of ... -
Integrating a Contemporary Therapeutic Landscape into a Historic Campus: Design for the Dr. Martin Horvat Hospital, Rovinj, Croatia
This thesis explores questions of the modern restorative healthcare environment and the value of cultural landscape preservation by developing a planning strategy and landscape design for the Dr. Martin Horvat Hospital in ... -
Investigating Grassroots Strategies for Sea Level Rise Adaptation: A Review of Island County’s Sea Level Rise Strategy Study
In 2019 Island County enlisted Washington Sea Grant and UW Urban Planning students to identify and recommend best management practices for sea-level rise adaptation measures for property owners and neighborhoods. This ... -
L.I.F.E. Landscape: A Co-created Healing Environment for Vulnerable Maasai Youth
My thesis project focuses on co-creating a design for a children’s home with a school, community center and healing garden for vulnerable Maasai children. The co-creation approach to the design process implies that the ... -
Lake Killarney Partnership: Ecological Planning with Roots in Science and Policy
For thousands of years philosophers have been asking questions about how people interact with the natural world, how our ethical and moral beliefs guide our treatment or mistreatment of the environment, and how we choose ... -
Lan[d]tern: Designing the Transit-Oriented Pedestrian Nightscape
This thesis looks at the challenges and opportunities associated with designing pedestrian routes and public spaces near transit for safe and enjoyable use at nighttime. Since most commuters in northern latitudes spend ... -
Lan[d]tern: Designing the Transit-Oriented Pedestrian Nightscape
This thesis looks at the challenges and opportunities associated with designing pedestrian routes and public spaces near transit for safe and enjoyable use at nighttime. Since most commuters in northern latitudes spend ... -
Lan[d]tern: Designing the Transit-Oriented Pedestrian Nightscape
This thesis looks at the challenges and opportunities associated with designing pedestrian routes and public spaces near transit for safe and enjoyable use at nighttime. Since most commuters in northern latitudes spend ... -
Landmark Refugia: An Urban Bird Sanctuary for the Christchurch, NZ Cathedral Rebuild
The influence of urbanization, climate change, land use changes, land fragmentation and natural disasters have destroyed many birds' natural habitats near cities. However, some birds are attracted to urban landscapes, and ... -
Landscape of Experimentation: Pioneering and Succession on Harbor Island
(2013-07-25)Intensive industrialization has left many cities with a variety of complex site conditions that necessitate innovative responses. Whether post-industrial and derelict or actively functioning under soon-to-be obsolete modes ... -
Leveraging Landscape for Human Health: Retooling the SITES Rating System to Promote Built Landscapes as Health Assets
Our health is sustained, in part, by the built landscapes in which we live our lives. These landscapes—from bus stops to national park systems—influence human health by enabling some activities and discouraging others, by ... -
Liquidated Urbanism: Found Condition and Exploited Conflict
This thesis hypothesizes that large-scale commercial sites throughout the world are well-positioned to be assets for cities and communities in the future. The condition of a large-scale commercial space standing where a ... -
Living in Place: Rebuilding the Relationship between People and Place in Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, China
This research-based design thesis is an exploration of post-industrial residential district renewal in Chongqing, China. The old residential areas of this city have been gradually replaced by new gated communities with ... -
Making the Invisible Visible: Olympia's Artesian Wells and Public Space Design
(2013-11-14)Once a ubiquitous source of drinking water, today the majority of Olympia's free-flowing artesian wells are all but forgotten. Only a few of more than ninety-six historic wells have not been capped, diverted into the sewer ... -
Marking Risk and Response: Design Interventions to Support Citizen Science Monitoring of the Trans Mountain Pipelines
How can community-based monitoring create much needed visibility and oversight of buried tar sands pipelines that traverse human and non-human communities? The Trans Mountain Pipeline conveys up to 12.6 million gallons of ...