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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 ... -
Transmission Lines in Wildland Landscapes: Gauging Visual Impact Among Casual Observers
(2012-09-13)Landscape assessments and visual impact analyses conducted for federal agency policy and planning purposes are performed by visual resource experts. Little input is gathered from members of the public, in whose interest ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Creativity, Landscape Design Process, Maury Island Gravel Mine
(2012-09-13)In the summer of 2007, I read a popular top-selling book by a Taiwanese playwright and theater director, Stan Lai (Lai Sheng- Chuan). This book, Lai Sheng-Chuan's Creativity, widened my vision and ignited my desire to ... -
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 ... -
Experiencing the Urban Water Cycle: SR 520 Stormwater Treatment Facility
(2013-02-25)The goal of this thesis is to explore design potentials of a stormwater treatment facility that can serve as a link to involve people in the urban water cycle. The site I examine is the proposed stormwater treatment facility ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Designing for Gender Equality in the Developing Context: Developing a Gender-Integrated Design Process to Support Designers' Seeing, Process, and Space Making
(2013-07-25)Focusing on gender equality and women's empowerment has been established as a keystone strategy for addressing all major international development goals. While designers (architects, landscape architects, planners, engineers) ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Garden Unit: A Case Study Exploring Therapeutic Garden Design for Elderly with Dementia at the Jewish Home of San Francisco
(2013-07-25)This design thesis examines the significance of therapeutic gardens in long-term geriatric care facilities and advocates for thoughtfully designed "out-of-doors" spaces that support the highest quality of life for elderly ... -
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 ... -
West Lake Union Traverse
(2013-07-25)I am fascinated by one's ability to drift through a space. In an unobstructed environment, water and people flow; people might drift and wander while water takes a more direct route, but both generally follow paths of least ... -
Designing for Health: Investigating Strategies to Create Healthy People, Landscapes and Ecosystems
(2013-11-14)This thesis explores the relationship between health and the built environment and the capacity and challenges faced by the designer to positively affect this relationship. Health is viewed in a holistic sense, understanding ... -
Design Summary : Schematic Design for InterImCDA's Farm & Nature Center Project
(2013-11-14)This report is both a pre-design summary, and site-specific design/build and planning resource, for InterImCDA and their new Farm & Nature Center in the Danny Woo Community Garden, within Seattle's International District. ... -
Design Activism Landscape Architecture for Marginalized People and Lands
(2013-11-14)University of Washington ABSTRACT DESIGN ACTIVISM FOR MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES AND LANDS Ximena A Bustamante Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Associate Professor Julie Johnson Department of Landscape Architecture This ... -
Ephemeral Design: Capturing Time and Ecological Processes along the Elwha River
(2013-11-14)There are many sites undergoing dramatic change as a result of decommissioned infrastructure and industry, or war and natural disaster. These sites, as degraded and disturbed landscapes, are in a state of dynamic flux ... -
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 ...