Dissertations / Theses: 'Urban landscape design'

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Zhou, Yukun. "LANDSCAPE INTEGRATION IN URBAN CONTEXT : Landscape Regeneration of Slakthusområdet." Thesis, KTH, Stadsbyggnad, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-98696.

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Taking as a starting point the theory and concept of Landscape Urbanism, this thesis project explores an alternative solution for the regeneration of old industrial areas using a case study: the design of Slakthusområdet in Stockholm. The project focuses on how to use landscape as a medium to transform Slakthusområdet into a sustainable, attractive, and people friendly area. And at the same time integrate it into a wider urban context. It covers two aspects: First, the integration of the site in the surrounding green network. Second, the regeneration of the green infrastructure inside of the site that could add ecological and social values to the site.

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Hammond, Barbara. "A whole landscape approach to urban design." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444342.

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Al-Mutawa, Yasmin Abdullah Abdullatif 1963. "Landscape design guidelines for Kuwait." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291619.

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Prior to the Iraqi invasion and occupation, there was limited landscaping in Kuwait. Public gardens, highways, streets, governmental and private buildings had been planted to some extent. In the post invasion days the Amir of Kuwait has set a goal to beautify Kuwait by intensified landscaping. Responsibility for this Plan was given to the Public Authority for Agriculture and Fisheries (PAAF) which in turn, commissioned the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) to develop the Plan, in collaboration with PAAF staff. Currently, a Strategic and Master Plan for "Greenery" Development (1995-2010) is being prepared. The plan will consist of guidelines for the gradual landscaping of Kuwait focusing on the urban areas. The objectives of this thesis is to ensure the development of guidelines into a comprehensive body of knowledge which takes these categories into consideration: sociocultural factors, functional factors, environmental/ecological factors and aesthetic factors. It is hoped that this information could be synthesized into a thoughtful, utilitarian landscape design guideline for Kuwait.

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Luo, Jinbin. "Rethinking the urban river : strategies of urban transformation Donghaoyong River, Guangzhou /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42927493.

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Clevenstine, Carly. "Integrating the Ohio| Through Sustainable Urban Design." Thesis, West Virginia University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10844297.

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Humankind’s relationship with water began before our inception. Our very existence and evolution depended on it, as all life on our blue planet does. However, over time and perhaps more notably since the dawn of the industrial revolution, this relationship has shifted—changed. Riverfronts became dominated by railroads and industry severing access to the water in our urban environments. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the neighborhood of Manchester experienced further separation when the neighborhood was divided in two by a raised, walled highway and the industrial riverfront was renamed Chateau. Both neighborhoods have suffered from blight and vacancy subsequently. Using historic and GIS maps, sustainable design standards as well as scientific evidence of the effects of water on our health, well-being, creativity and happiness; this thesis seeks to examine why this connection to the Ohio River is vital to both residents and the city of Pittsburgh. And finally how we can redesign the industrial waterfront to reconnect both Chateau and Manchester with the river and serve as a model for sustainable redevelopment of these important cultural places.

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Lee, Chun-man John. "Reading and landscape : reveal our root and culture through landscape design /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B34609738.

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Ho, Wing-yan Teresa. "Revitalization of dense residential area." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43085581.

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Thesis (M. L. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes special report study entitled: Integrating cars and people in residential areas. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

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Tong, Chui-shan Zandie, and 唐翠珊. "Revitalization of Nathan Road corridor: landscape + consumerism = urban oasis." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45009685.

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Cunningham, Kevin L. "Resilience theory: a framework for engaging urban design." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15776.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture, Regional and Community Planning
Blake Belanger
Landscape architects are challenged with finding appropriate solutions to adequately address the dynamic nature of urban environments. In the 1970's C.S. Holling began to develop resilience theory, which is intended to provide a holistic understanding of the way socio-ecological systems change and interact across scales. Resilience theory addresses the challenges and complexities of contemporary urban environments and can serve as a theoretical basis for engaging urban design practice. To test the validity of resilience theory as a theoretical basis for urban design, this thesis is an exploration of the addition of resilience theory to current landscape architecture literature and theory through a three-part methodology: a literature review that spans a breadth of research, case study analyses, and an application of resilience theory through a design framework in two projective design experiments. The resilience framework bridges between complex theory and design goals/strategies in a holistic approach. Through the identification of key connections in the reviewed literature that situate the relevance of resilience theory to landscape architecture and the subsequent case study analysis, specific methods for applying resilience theory to urban design practice are defined within the proposed framework. These methods fit within five main categories: identify and respond to thresholds, promote diversity, develop redundancies, create multi-scale networks and connectivity, and implement adaptive planning/management/design practices. The framework is validated by the success of the projective design application in the winning 2013 ULI/Hines Urban Design Competition entry, The Armory. Resilience theory and the proposed design framework have the potential to continue to advance the prominence of landscape architecture as the primary leader in urban design practice.

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Hitchcock, Stephen. "Cape (of no) Flats : a new landscape of experience." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24375.

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Fok, Yu-chung Brian. "Matrix of the City : urban recreation of Shek Tong Tsui /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25953151.

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Lee, Lap-ting Gloria. "Transforming landscape : Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42927468.

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Wilkinson, David M. "Modelling light attenuation by urban trees." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316648.

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Schultz, Elizabeth A. "Design EcoDistricts: Integrating Sustainable Design in Urban Environments." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337715788.

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Wong, Wing-kong. "Landscape linkage along the edge waterfront design at Shau Kei Wan typhoon shelter /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42664378.

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Thesis (M. L. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes special report study entitled: Treatments of the tidal edge for appreciation. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

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Dzegede, Anyeley Yawa 1976. "Historical and cultural narratives in landscape design : design applications for Miami Beach, Florida." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65721.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [94]-[97]).
Narrative landscapes are designed environments that use physical elements, spaces and stories to convey messages and make place. Through the use of narrative landscapes, designers can relate the historical and cultural significance of particular places and peoples. The designer must be concerned not only with the contents of the story, but with the role of the readers, the community and in the ideologies and worldviews these narratives imply. The issues involved with creating narrative in the landscape are in the incorporation of the stories and elements of the past and the use of symbolic and didactic media. In our multicultural and highly mediated society, landscape designs for public places should be pluralistic and multi-dimensional. A pluralistic design conveys the stories of personalities, communities, historic events, and places and is made within a community process or with community input. The multidimensional aspect of narrative designs emanates from the blending of abstracted or symbolic forms of communication and didactic forms that carry a series of messages. Narrative landscapes were examined to determine how designed elements and sequencing tell stories in the landscape. The information gathered was used to develop a potential design approach for the Indian Creek Corridor in Miami Beach, Florida.
by Anyeley Yawa Dzegede.
M.C.P.

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Upchurch, Meredith. "Green Infrastructure: The Landscape of Urban EcoHousing." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32859.

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Cities are facing environmental crises like never before, with problems of excess water runoff, degraded water quality, air pollution, and energy use reaching critical levels. The development of urban areas and the built environment is the primary cause of these problems and the built environment needs to be a part of the solution. This design thesis project produces a prototype design for the Urban EcoHousing development on a city block in Alexandria, Virginia. Design goals for the project connect the â Ecological Services of the Urban Landscapeâ to the â Rights of the Urban EcoHousing Residentâ to create livable green spaces that can serve ecological functions and give the residents spaces to use. A comparison study with a conventional housing development at the same location illustrates that ecohousing can meet the requirements of the conventional development while providing superior results for the residents and the environment.
Master of Landscape Architecture

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Perry, John. "Compete : Urban Land Institute / Gerald D. Hines student urban design competition." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1487.

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Lee, Chun-man John, and 李俊文. "Reading and landscape: reveal our root and culture through landscape design." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45009624.

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Syed, Rizwan Husain 1960, and Rizwan Husain 1960 Syed. "Landscape design guidelines for Karachi City, Pakistan." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291900.

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This study examines landscape regulations and their potential to improve the urban environments of developing countries. The literature on environmental problems of developing countries suggests that landscape solutions must be both economic and environmentally sound. Religion and cultural ethics are the basis for landscape values in the Muslim society. Religion governs Muslims. The religious landscape values would be readily acceptable by Islamic society when used as an implementation strategy. Model landscape guidelines are presented for Karachi, Pakistan which should be helpful in preparing actual landscape regulations. Karachi's economic constraints pose unavoidable restrictions. Setting up design standards requires a careful and realistic approach. Suggestions are made to build up a conceptual policy umbrella at the national, and provincial level, providing a basis for developing landscape regulations by local governments.

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Meyer, Anthony. "Interactive urban environments." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8789.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jessica Canfield
Interactive technology is rapidly affecting our society, extending opportunities for convenience, communication, function, and pleasure. Defined as electronic or computation-based entities that reciprocate human use or action, interactive technology allows people the opportunity to personalize how something looks, how it feels, what it does, and how it is perceived. Many physical objects, such as a home thermostat system or a motion-activated sculpture, are embedded with computation that allows them to detect certain environmental influences, and respond with a purposeful action. As suggested by Malcolm McCullough, interactive technologies will be implemented into the urban environment, grounding them to a specific place and reflecting the character and context. Interactive technology will be combined with traditional urban design practices to generate an interactive urban environment. The Civic Room in Downtown St. Louis is prime for renewal. Underutilized and monotonous, the park space is seen as a tear in the urban fabric and lacks diverse program opportunities. The Civic Room will be used as a testing ground for an interactive urban environment, utilizing three dimensions of interactive technology, including information exchange, creative expression, and kinetics, as well as the specific elements of an effective urban open space (Whyte, 1980). Then, the existing site and resulting interactive urban environment will be evaluated on its potential to improve certain dimensions of performance (Lynch, 1981), and its impact on the identity and use of the space. Engaging an interactive urban environment in the St. Louis Civic Room will promote an understanding of the effects that interactive technology can begin to have in a larger context. It will activate the space, promote social collaboration, and establish a dynamic atmosphere that reflects more closely the desired intent of all users. In turn, it can propel the opportunity to approach interactive urban environments as an alternative method of urban space design.

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Ward, Thompson Catharine Joan. "Experience of landscape : understanding responses to landscape design and exploring demands for the future." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5617.

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The research that forms this thesis is a portfolio of seven published papers together with a critical review, set out below, which gives a general overview of all the work. The work covers a period from the 1990s until 2008, with publication dates spanning a decade. The research has developed from an early interest in exploring the nature of landscape experience, responses to past and contemporary landscape designs, and what benefits people might gain from engaging with such landscapes. It has also reflected a desire to raise standards of scholarship and research in landscape architecture. The portfolio of work addresses three broad themes, interconnected but requiring different approaches in terms of method: the distinctiveness of place and design responses to it; design of public open space for the 21st century; and understanding people’s engagement with the natural environment. The research addresses the following questions and is presented under these headings, each representing a different strand or focus of attention. a) History, prototypes and local distinctiveness: what is the role of historic design prototypes in contemporary landscape architecture and how can an understanding of them enhance sensitivity to local distinctiveness in new design? b) Urban open space: how can an understanding of the history of landscape design inform the way urban open space is designed, planned and managed in the 21st century and what new paradigms might there be? c) Experiencing the landscape: how do people perceive, use and respond to green landscapes in their local environment, and what factors influence engagement with and benefit from such natural environments? The outputs in this portfolio are shown to have influenced other researchers as well as policy makers and practitioners; they are reflected in citations of the work and in government agency initiatives to develop new approaches to accessing the landscape. Finally, a conceptual framework is offered for understanding and responding to people’s diverse experiences of landscape.

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Wong, Kei-fung, and 王琦鳳. "Designing contextual design." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50704953.

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Burg, Joel G. "Exploring the Role of the Artifact: An Evolution of Form, Function and Memory in the Urban Landscape." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23255.

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The urban landscape is a diverse environment that is constantly evolving. Such change does not remove and replace all of the remnants of the city\'s past, however, and the remaining artifacts become key pieces of local identity as a result of their persistence. Even so, artifacts are also complex entities and their definition and value can be drastically different given the context in which they exist. Nonetheless, artifacts can be broadly understood as interactive elements in the urban landscape that become enmeshed in their surrounding community, and serve a vital role as a result. This enquiry examines that role of artifacts in the urban landscape and seeks to uncover how such a role can inform effective design practice into the future.
Master of Landscape Architecture

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Bacon, Kevin L. Jr. "Terra fluxus urban design in the wake of deindustrialization /." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24723.

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Teles, Maria de Castro Figueiredo Silva. "Actividade profissional em contexto nacional e internacional: prática de arquitectura paisagista entre 2006 e 2014." Master's thesis, ISA/UL, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/8508.

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Relatório integrador da Actividade Profissional - Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia
Throughout my professional life, I lived and worked in three different countries - Portugal, Germany and Italy - and had co-workers from many more origins. These circumstances made me experience a huge variety of methodologies and approaches to Landscape Architecture. There was also a big variety in scale, typology and geographic context on the projects I followed. All of this was incredibly enriching and shaped my way of designing and made it evolve. This report gathers the projects in which I took part and tries to make prove that the knowledge and skills acquired during my career cover and go beyond the ones acquired by the master students of the new curriculum. The report also includes a brief reflection on the landscape architecture practice in the three countries I worked in.

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Luo, Jinbin, and 羅錦斌. "Rethinking the urban river: strategies of urban transformation Donghaoyong River, Guangzhou." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4500982X.

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Meier, Daniel Steven. "Generative Modeling as a tool in Urban Riverfront Design; an exploration of Parametric Design in Landscape Architecture." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338355682.

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杨玺 and Xi Alex Yang. "From ladders to urban park: rethinking of urban voids for well-being." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4754448X.

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O'Hare, Daniel John. "Tourism and small coastal settlements : a cultural landscape approach for urban design." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388644.

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Toroitich, Caleb. "Responding to climate change in the design of the urban river landscape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7536.

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Two main challenges facing humanity today are sustainable development and avoidance of human-induced climate change. In many ways these two threaten human civilisation and development and the very existence of life on earth. These words are mentioned in UN conferences; in professional bodies' workshops; in the corridors of government departments; in school classrooms and among the general public. There is also extensive amount of literature on the same subjects. Many recognise the problems and try to look for solutions. Climate change has impacted negatively on both rural and urban landscapes. River corridors uniquely cross through many environments and ideally should exhibit same character wherever it crosses irrespective of adjoining land uses. However. where it crosses urban landscapes, places of intense and varied land uses, human interference and abuse is most witnessed and recognisable. As more and more people migrate to urban areas, the situation is bound to get worse. New ways of planning and design of this landscape, especially in the face of adverse effects of climate change, should be sought. This dissertation seeks to be part of this endeavour to propose methods of how the urban river landscape can or should be moulded to reduce the impact of climate change first on its ecological integrity and balance and secondly to its socio-economic and cultural aspects to urban dwellers.

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Maia, Marcelo Reis. "Práticas sensíveis sobre o espaço comum." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16134/tde-24112010-161312/.

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Caminhando por referências bibliográficas, esta dissertação buscou construir um tema comum para se pensar e praticar a arquitetura e o design na sociedade contemporânea. O tema proposto aqui é o espaço comum. Aqui, comum é entendido como banal, genérico, recorrente, freqüente, compartilhado, repartido, coletivo, entre outras interpretações; o espaço comum é um cenário critico e instrumental. O espaço comum é uma releitura crítica do espaço, da paisagem e do tempo na sociedade urbana contemporânea. Paralelamente a este cenário critico, trazemos as práticas sensíveis sobre o espaço comum. A prática é o eixo deste trabalho e a sensibilidade seu impulso. Este trabalho, apesar das referencias teóricas e conceituais apresentadas no primeiro capítulo, é um trabalho prático. Seu conteúdo está centrado nos produtos que o acompanham. Logo, o DVD-Rom inserido na contracapa deste trabalho não deve ser apreciado como um conteúdo adicional. Este é parte essencial deste trabalho assim como o texto. Buscamos ainda abrir questões para se pensar o papel do arquiteto e do designer enquanto propositor de uma cultura urbana. Este trabalho, que parte da hipótese em que a sociedade urbana Lefebvriana é um rumo comum, pergunta: como pode o arquiteto fazer parte efetivamente deste movimento social sem ser um espectador arrastado entre correntes e tendências da cultura? Também, enquanto uma análise crítica da linguagem usada por arquitetos e designers, as práticas sensíveis sobre o espaço comum, ilustram e indicam o potencial existente na linguagem eletrônica para se perceber, experimentar, e intervir em espaços urbanos. Enfim, fotografias digitais, panoramas, animações, vídeos, músicas e registros sonoros práticos impulsionados pela sensibilidade urbana resultam em produtos que serão apresentados ao longo deste trabalho paralelamente ao texto.
Through bibliographic references, this thesis envisages a common theme to think and practice architecture and design in the contemporary society. The subject in study is the common space. In this context, common space is defined as trivial, generic, recurrent, frequent, shared by groups, among other interpretations. The common space is a stage for critique and work. The common space can be redefined with a critical view of space, landscape and time in the contemporary society. In parallel to this critical view, we bring sensitive practices to the common space. Hands-on is the axis of this work and sensitivity its drive. This thesis is a practical work in spite of the theoretical references presented and discussed in the first chapter. Its core is in the contents of the DVD-Rom attached, which is an integral part of the work in the same way as the written text is. In the research we propose the role of the architect and designer as a direct influence in urban culture. This work hypothesis is that the Lefebvres urban society is a common goal, and so, how can an architect be part of this movement without being a simple spectator being pushed by cultural currents and tendencies? Still, the language used by architects and designers, with sensitive interferences in the urban space, indicate the potential of the use of digital language to perceive, experiment and intervene in urban spaces. Finally, digital photographs, images, animations, videos, music and sounds can be products as presented in this thesis in addition to the written text.

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Cadwallender, Mary Virginia. "Comparative Landscape Infrastructure in Kolda, Senegal and Washington, D.C." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78321.

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This comparative study of two urban areas—Kolda, Senegal and the Historic Anacostia Neighborhood in Washington, D.C.—explores how landscape infrastructure can decrease the scalar disconnect between the global water crisis and local water use practices. By looking at one city in the Global North and one in the Global South with similar risk of water stress, I am able to compare cultural aesthetics and engage two different levels of infrastructural build out (World Resources Institute, Water Risk Atlas). The design approach draws inspiration from Lawrence Halprin's notion of "experiential equivalents," and proposes a suite of site scale water sources and seeps (Halprin, Ghirardelli Plaza). Unlike Halprin, whose designs primarily use, interpret, and express natural elements, cultural interactions with water as well as natural systems drive the designs in Kolda and Anacostia. Thus, the speculative designs I am presenting weave the experiences of sourcing water, filtering water, and water seeps into the existing urban and cultural fabric. By taking a systemic and episodic approach to public landscape development, not only will these infrastructural landscapes serve the community but the aesthetic experience of the designs also becomes part of daily life. Perhaps as Elizabeth Meyer theorizes in "Beyond 'Sustaining Beauty'", these designed landscapes "can contribute to…]a new ethos of a sustainable perception and living." Furthermore, this project presents a kit of parts for community-based development, suggesting the ability to extend the landscape infrastructure systems in Kolda and Anacostia and providing the tools for other communities.
Master of Landscape Architecture

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Hulsmeyer, Alexander Fabbri. "A cidade através dos seus sistemas de espaços livres: estrutura, configuração e fragmentação - um estudo de caso em Umuarama - PR." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16135/tde-28072014-161251/.

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Este trabalho relaciona-se à forma urbana, mas não sob a ótica do urbanismo ou do planejamento urbano em stricto sensu: relaciona-se a uma maneira de ver a cidade através dos seus sistemas de espaços livres, onde a paisagem assume o papel de uma \"lente\" pela qual é lida a cidade contemporânea, indicando meios para sua configuração. Neste contexto, a Arquitetura Paisagística enquanto disciplina e atividade profissional constitui-se como o conjunto de teorias, conceitos e métodos que tornam esta \"lente\" operacional. O objetivo deste trabalho, portanto, é recuperar o sentido da adoção de fundamentos do projeto e planejamento paisagístico em qualquer tipo de desenvolvimento, crescimento e gestão de cidade, considerando que os espaços livres, dentre eles ruas, rios, áreas de preservação, praças, parques são os sistemas estruturais que moldam a paisagem urbana. Este trabalho aborda ainda os diferentes agentes que participam deste dinâmico processo de configuração da paisagem, e demonstra que a falta de planejamento e diretrizes de projeto tem como resultado a fragilização e a fragmentação da forma urbana. A legislação, um dos únicos instrumentos de fato operativos, em grande escala, assume o papel principal de mediador e ordenador dos diferentes interesses, e isoladamente não se mostra apropriada para tal fim. Neste sentido, a hipótese central que guia esta tese é a de que o resgate do conceito estrutural do Sistema de Espaços Livres - SEL na paisagem urbana é essencial para uma nova abordagem de planejamento e projeto de cidades. Como estudo de caso, foi escolhida a cidade planejada de Umuarama-PR, que entre o seu plano inicial e as novas áreas de expansão, possibilitou a análise comparativa de dois momentos distintos do processo de formação e de gestão do sistema de espaços livres e sua relação com a forma urbana.
This paper is related to urban morphology, but not upon the Urban Design view or the Urban Planning in stricto sensu; instead, it is related to a way of viewing the city through its open spaces systems, where the landscape turns into lens through which the contemporaneous city is read, pointing out ways for its configuration. In this context, the Landscape Architecture as a subject and professional activity is the set of theories, concepts e methods that make these \"lens\" being operational. So, this paper objective is to bring back the meaning of the adoption of fundaments of Landscape design and planning in any kind of development, growth and management of a city, by taking into consideration that the open spaces, such as streets, rivers, which shape the urban landscape. This paper also mentions the diferente agents which take part in this dynamic configuration of landscape process, and it shows that the lack of planning and guideline of a project results in a urban space fragility and fragmentation. The legislation, one of the only tools which is really operative in a large scale, takes the main role of mediator and organizer of different interests, and it does not show itself to be fit for this purpose. In this sense, the central hypothesis that guides this theory is that the bailout of the structural concept of the open system spaces in the urban landscape is essential for a new approach of planning and designning cities. The planned city of Umuarama - PR was chosen as a case preservation areas, squares, parks are the structural systems study, which between its original plan and the new areas of expansion, made possible the comparative analysis of two distinct moments of its open spaces system and its relation with the urban form.

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Ware, Charles W. "Comparing two post occupancy evaluation methods with an urban plaza test case." Thesis, This resource online, 1989. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09052009-040251/.

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Ryall, Carol Gillian. "The design of urban space : recording and analysing the effects of design on human behaviour patterns in urban space /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARCHSM/09archsmr988.pdf.

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Maulan, Suhardi. "Seremban Urban Park, Malaysia: a Preference Study." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33099.

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Unlike the West, where many studies have explored how peopleâ s needs are fulfilled by urban parks, Malaysia has received very little attention from researchers. One reason for this is the fact that Malaysia has only a short public park tradition. Although folk art and stories have chronicled a long history of gardens and other parks, these spaces were only accessible to royal family members and autocrats. In Malaysia, the concept of free public parks is relatively recent, having been introduced by the British colonial government. This thesis aims to analyze the current demands on urban parks in Malaysia. It specifically studies an urban park in the city of Seremban in the state of Negeri Sembilan, which was built by the British in the early 1900â s. This park is apparently not meeting the needs of the public at large. Even though it is near active public facilities, such as a state mosque, a downtown area, public offices, and a public library, it suffers from a declining number of visitors. This thesis is based on data obtained from a survey questionnaire that polled public attitudes regarding Seremban Urban Park. The data was analyzed to determine the factors that influence potential park patrons, as well as the preferred activities of those who visit the park. The research suggests that accessibility, sense of territoriality, activities in the park, the natural environment, and park maintenance influence participantsâ decisions to visit the park. In addition, it points out that participantsâ preferred park activities include family gatherings and passive socializing activities. The primary implications of this thesis are that urban parks are emerging as important public spaces in Malaysian cities, and that their continuing effectiveness is largely dependent upon a prioritizing of activities and a commitment to maintenance. This research should help landscape architects and planners expand the relationship between urban parks and public life in Malaysian cities.
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Fields, Willard. "Urban Landscape Change in New Orleans, LA: The Case of the Lost Neighborhood of Louis Armstrong." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2005. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/151.

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While Jane Jacobs' frontal assault on "modern planning" is now over forty years old, communities around the United States are still struggling to deal with the legacy of modernist interventions that dramatically altered the historic urban form and culture of their downtowns. In the worst cases, whole zones were transformed into nearly unusable space. Reintegrating these lost spaces into the urban fabric is one of the most significant challenges of urban planners and designers today. Despite the ubiquity of lost spaces in American cities, comparatively little research has been done on the specific historic urban forms that were altered. This dissertation seeks to explore the processes of landscape change through a case study of Louis Armstrong's downtown neighborhood in New Orleans. It employs an urban morphological framework to uncover the specific landscape changes that occurred in the neighborhood over time. This micro-level view is broadened through an examination of the political economic forces that helped to transform the once vibrant neighborhood into the lost space of today. This study concludes that while it is tempting to identify the twentieth century modern interventions as the cause of lost space in New Orleans, such a reading unnecessarily isolates the modern development era from the historical continuum of land use that helped define the city. When the scope of inquiry into the causes of lost space is widened to include the historic formation of landscape remnants, long-standing patterns of lost space development begin to appear that stretch back to the founding of the city. Modern development, seen in this light, exacerbated existing negative landscape features more than created them.

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Wang, Shengling Selina. "Toxic beauty brownfield regeneration of former Guangzhou cement plant /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43085611.

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Includes special report study entitled: Landscape-in-process : integrating phytoremediation into landscape design process. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

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Grehl, Elaine. "The design and implementation of a rain garden at the University of Delaware a case study /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 1.33 Mb., p, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1435834.

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Kirk, Patricia Ann. "Evaluating therapeutic landscape design elements of urban plazas in the southwestern United States." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278783.

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Previous research on the therapeutic effectiveness of well-designed outdoor spaces in healthcare settings (OSHS) indicates psychological and physiological benefits for patients, staff, and visitors. Beyond the medical environment, well-designed urban open space is thought to possibly provide a healing effect for the urban dweller or office worker. This study evaluated therapeutic effectiveness of existing urban plazas compared to OSHS (used as control sites) in the southwestern U.S. Methods involved summarizing recommendations based on literature and noted designs in the field, and developing evaluation criteria termed Therapeutic Landscape Design Elements (TLDE). Presence of 27 TLDE and calculation of site coverage was determined at 13 urban plazas and six outdoor spaces in healthcare settings. Ranked correlation and t-test analyses were used to determine significant differences between the two types of sites. Urban plazas had significantly greater percent hardscape than OSHS, whereas OSHS had greater presence of moveable furniture and designated smoking areas.

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Xue, Liyao, and 薛立尧. "Landscape renovation of Suzhou Creek industrial zone in Shanghai." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47544417.

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Webster, Kelvin Peter. "The Everyday: Informing the realm of routine practice through design." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42350.

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When we think of the everyday, we tend to think of such words as familiar, ordinary, mundane, habitual, banal, and commonplace. Yet beyond these dictionary definitions lies a much deeper meaning and appreciation when understood as something that is experienced.

When it comes to informing and interpreting the everyday through design, early contemporary theorists Michael De Certeau, Henri Lefebvre and Georges Perec to contemporary advocates of landscape architecture, such as Walter Hood and Laurie Olin, have provided a design oriented approach to the understanding on a subject of study that has long been neglected. There lies a relationship between the quotidian dimension and design that is attuned to experience of place and individual expression. This thesis presents an approach to discovering interpretations of the everyday and how landscape architects can express such influences in the design of urban public places. My methodology involves the use of case studies to provide design guidelines that are translated from universal to site specific values. By adapting the common vocabulary landscape architecture with the realm of the routine practices, the city as a deep rooted, ephemeral, and evolving entity will transform the public realm into spaces that can occupy the desire to grow, change, and adapt.
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Hoetmer, Derek. "CenterScapes : waste landscapes into thriving communities." Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15777.

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Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jason Brody
Within the past decade, waste landscapes of decaying regional shopping centers and malls have been transformed into new buildings, streets, and towns— otherwise known as greyfield redevelopments. The most successful of these greyfield redevelopment projects are designed as vibrant town centers that exhibit traits of larger 24-hour cities. Unfortunately, landscape has been less relevant within these projects than they have in historical town center precedents. Landscape architecture originated from societal, cultural, and environmental needs and emerged as a profession to meet those needs. Theory, research, and design principles have emerged as well from studying the importance of landscape within the urban realm. Based upon the theory of Landscape Urbanism, landscape should be the primary element of urban order and that landscape architects possess the ability to enhance these multi-disciplinary projects. In CenterScapes, explorative design projects act as experimental subjects for a landscape architecture approach to current successful greyfield-redevelopment-into-town-center design. This masters project illustrates design research in theory, precedent, design principle, analysis, and explorative design through two applications. While both applications exhibit traits of a greyfield-redevelopment-into-town-center typology, one is designed solely by landscape architects and the other is designed by an interdisciplinary team represented by architectural, landscape architectural, and real estate development disciplines. This report functions to reveal the importance of strategically allocated and designed open space to act as catalysts for new town center developments.

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McDowell, Charles. "Reveal: new ecologies for an urban stream system." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8761.

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Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Lee R. Skabelund
Throughout the history of Kansas City, the Brush Creek Corridor has experienced severe flooding which, on numerous occasions, has resulted in loss of life. This urban stream supports a high profile area of the city. It is located adjacent to what is considered Kansas City’s most elite shopping district, the JC Nichols Country Club Plaza, the University of Missouri - Kansas City urban campus, as well as numerous high density residential units. The stream corridor has been confined due to the encroachment of the surrounding urban environment which has minimized many opportunities for the future management of Brush Creek. There have been many flood control projects but these solutions have not been effective in reducing along the entire corridor. Previous projects have been done in a way that alienates urban dwellers from Brush Creek and does not allow pedestrians to utilize the stream corridor as an effective urban green space. The Brush Creek Corridor can be redesigned to revitalize the existing area by embracing natural ecological processes in order to create a more sustainable urban stream system. Brush Creek can be envisioned in a way that will enhance visitor experience by exposing and revealing the ecological processes to the users without inhibiting the functionality of those natural processes. Four project goals have been identified through research: improve, connect, and educate. In order to achieve the project goals, a set of sites are to be selected from the corridor. A corridor study is done to identify sites by assessing factors related to the site’s ability to improve, connect, and educate. Once the sites have been identified and defined, programming and site design strategies will be implemented to relate to the project goals. The selected sites within the Brush Creek Corridor will be models for experience oriented urban stream design. The project area will harbor healthy ecosystems with integrated pedestrian oriented spaces that connect the corridor, improve environmental conditions, and support environmental education. These projects will be catalysts for experience oriented ecological design solutions throughout the Brush Creek Corridor in the future.

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Hazelrigg, George. "The Thickness of Landscape, horizontally and vertically considered." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35620.

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The McMillan sand filtration plant in Washington, D.C. is a significant industrial landscape that provided safe clean water to much of the capital during 1905-1985. At the outset, the McMillan Commission chose to make the plant and adjacent McMillan reservoir part of the park system it was mapping for Washington. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was appointed to landscape the tract, a task completed in 1920. Closed to the public since WWII, the site was abandoned when its operation ended. This thesis looks at its future by exploring the thickness of landscape and the site's discovered geometry. Peeling back its uniformly level 25-acre surface broken only twice by rows of concrete towers, its horizontal layers, vertical elements and strong grids are revealed, offering clues for new design strategies. Examples of how landscape geometries have been considered and works of landscape built elsewhere are reviewed. Recalling water's historically central role in the site, the latter's potential for demonstrating responsible stormwater management and other sustainable practices is emphasized. Local stakeholder interests and proven ingredients of successful urban parks are noted. A design process is outlined that exploits the earlier exploratory findings to reconcile the transition between old and new, deciding what to remove and what to add. Details are provided on the resulting new "memorial park" that both celebrates its history and responds to contemporary interests and needs of the 21st century urban landscape.
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Javaherigilani, Eliana. "Yes, And... The Improvising Landscape of the Displaced." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64791.

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Immigration has continuously been an evident part of the human history. Throughout time, for one reason or another people have left the place they call home. Whether voluntarily seeking better opportunities in other cities/countries/continents, or forcefully being asked to leave due to political, social, or natural issues, resettlement continues to be a difficult challenge for those who are displaced. The issue, human displacement, whether caused by natural disasters or political/social issues, is rather serious, especially in our world today. Whether the wildfires of California, the hurricanes of Louisiana, or political issues of Syria, there is a massive population who choose to or have to leave the place they call him. Despite many psychological and physical challenges, trauma, and difficulties that these individuals have to face, where they go next does not have to be a tough adjustment. Restorative environments, namely landscapes, allow for recovery of these individuals through its components of mystery, coherence, complexity, and texture. In the case of immigrants and refugees, the time of adjustment and adaptation heightens the absence of sense of belonging and potential social injustice; however, design and very particularly throughout this thesis, landscape architecture can help. Improvisation has one rule, "yes, and...". The notion of acceptance and addition allows for the involved individuals to not only be creative regarding their surroundings, but encourages them to become a part of evolving of the space. This, increases the sense of belonging, and therefore, makes for a more positive experience in a given space. This becomes specifically important for a displaced/detached group of individuals.
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Decker, Elizabeth Florence. "A city for Marc: an inclusive urban design approach to planning for adults with autism." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17606.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional + Community Planning
Mary Catherine (Katie) Kingery‐Page
The generation of diagnosed autistic children is aging, calling on needed research for what will happen to autistic adults. Cities are outfitted to non-autistic people, typically created for an idealized individual without disability or limitation. Urban environments add to sensory overload, have limited mass transit accessible to those with neurological disabilities, provide few affordable housing units, offer very little employment opportunity, and have no green spaces designed for those with autism or other differences. Typical urban design does not take into account the landscape and urban affordances needed by adults with autism. This project synthesizes a toolkit including the following needs for adults with autism: vocational training, life skills, mental and physical health support, employment, public transportation and affordable housing. Using the initial theoretical urban systems toolkit, I conducted an evaluation and synthesized proposal for Nashville, Tennessee, a large city that ranks within the nation among the lowest for cost-of-living (e.g. groceries, housing, and utilities). The outcome of the evaluation and synthesis is a diagrammatic infographic conveying existing and needed services within Nashville, as well as connectivity of needs for adults with autism. From the diagrammatic proposal, the initial theoretical urban systems toolkit is revised, reflecting upon the findings through the evaluation of Nashville, Tennessee. The final theoretical urban systems toolkit and diagrammatic proposal for Nashville, Tennessee provides exploratory research for city planners, architects, and landscape architects to design for cities inclusive of adults with autism, as well as other neurological disabilities or limitations. This additional layer of design not only contributes to the social and environmental well-being of individuals with autism, but also contributes to the entire urban community. Urban design as an approach to planning for adults with autism contributes a new disciplinary perspective to the discourse on planning for a maturing autistic population.

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Du, Shi, and 杜實. "Design with stormwater : landscape of integrated LID in Chinese high-density residential development." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/196508.

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Stormwater flooding problems become more and more serious in China recently. Besides the effects of global warming, the deficiency of conventional storm drain system can’t be neglected. This thesis is aiming to analyze the potential problems of existing municipal drainage infrastructure, introduce a more advanced alternative -- Low Impact Development (LID) to deal with urban stormwater management in residential development, which is a soft approach favoring natural way of treatment. LID as a solution not only reduce the pressure in drainage pipes during flood peak, but can also supplement underground water ecologically, which could positively protect precious water resources in China. Since urbanization is extremely rapid in China, if not understanding the fundamental reason, solely depending on increasing the diameters of drainage pipes will never catch up the speed of runoff that generated by impervious area, which resulting from more and more surface runoff being circulated and centralized to the storm drain system in a shorter and shorter time. The objective of this thesis is to let authority and public recognize the fundamental reason of this problem and at the same time realize the benefits of LID. Moreover, provide a residential landscape design that integrated LID within Chinese specific urban context as an alternative.
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Lam, Kam-sau, and 林錦秀. "Convergence over nullah connector for urban transformation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47543607.

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