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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"landscape architect"”.
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The Landscape Architect as Plantsman: Materiality, Representation and Finding the Lost Gardener
Plants are the unique materials of landscape architecture, and, as any landscape architect will attest, the first question likely to be posed by a new acquaintance will be about a plant. Today's world offers landscape architects more and more opportunities and demands requiring a broad and thorough …
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The Biocentric Landscape Architect: Designing the Public Landscape, Benefiting the Natural World
… human – nature relationship, as it relates to landscape architecture, through spiritual, mathematical, geometrical, historical, economical, ecological, philosophical and ethical perspectives. Sustainable design and eco-revelatory design methods are also explored in order to aid in the …
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Development of a Landscape Vulnerability Assessment Model in a Heightened Security Environment
Do current landscape security practices provide sufficient protection to support building sustainability in the event of a terrorist attack? By exploring the relative effectiveness of current landscape security practices and methodologies, this thesis proposes to provide the landscape architect …
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The sign models of Sassure and Pierce and the glossematic model of Hjelmslev: an analysis of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
Cultural meaning has been a critical dimension of landscape design over several thousands of years. Recent literature submits that the strength of cultural meaning has waned over the last century. It is also suggested, however, that the landscape architect is in a unique position to strengthen the …
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Apparent Preferences of Beach Users at Virginia Beach Resort Zone
… award programs and experts, the research landscape architect observed the Virginia Beach Resort Zone for areas of intense beach user activity. The resulting analysis of these "hot-spots" indicated that urban resort beach users visiting the recreational beach during high-use times tended to …
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A Site Planning and Design Process for Antiterrorism Practices
… a solution to a growing problem involving the landscapes of many prominent landmarks in America. The probability that terrorists will target and attack public and private sites has mandated increased security presence. The initial response was to surround sensitive facilities with barriers and …
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The interrelationships of nature based on Thoreau's Walden and Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis
… between an individual and their personal landscape. This viewpoint is an alternative to the more prevalent world view of our mass society. The pervasive outlook disregards these connections and concentrates instead on isolationism. By viewing elements of the natural world as isolated …
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Creating Community Among Older Adults in Southwest Virginia Through Social Participation
… aging in place and social isolation to landscape design. Identifying the critical principles of social participation and how these needs can be met through landscape intervention, we formulate a set of criteria, through which the landscape architect can design healthy and sustainable …
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The effect of turnaround migration on the rural landscape: a study of Grayson County, Virginia
… regarding land use and objectives for the rural landscape. Some planners and sociologists believe a better understanding of the impact of urban migration on the rural landscape is needed. The future character of the rural landscape is uncertain. This research will concentrate on the potential …
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Safe Haven Leveling the Playing Field by Creating a Home for the Unsheltered, Homeless, Water, and Native Plants
Through natural and constructed elements, landscape architects design public landscapes to engage the public in the great outdoors. While many local governments and designers actively create landscapes to keep the unsheltered and homeless out of public spaces, keep water in storm drains, and keep …
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The writings of Louisa Tuthill : cultivating architectural taste in nineteenth-century America
This dissertation discusses the architectural writings of Louisa Tuthill ( 1798-1879), a little known nineteenth-century American author. Tuthill has been acknowledged for her History of Architecture from the Earliest Times (1848), the first history of architecture published in the United States. …
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Research and experiential learning: an understanding of the Australian Aborigines relationship to their environment
… this knowledge can have for our society. Asa landscape architect, this knowledge can be used to influence design and land use decisions.
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The Urban Floodscape: Revealing, Carving, and Placing the Historic Klingle Ford Road
… apart more frequently and the role of the landscape architect in designing infrastructure is crucial. How should we design our infrastructure knowing that it will be reworked by water and reclaimed by nature? The thesis proposes the re-design of a road that has been closed several times due …
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'Design with Nature and Culture': The Landscapes of George Erwin Patton
… Erwin Patton (1920-1991) was the most prolific landscape architect of twentieth century Philadelphia. Over the course of three decades in practice, his firm of George E. Patton & Associates preserved some of the city’s most important public spaces and collaborated with several of the era’s …
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Stewardship gardening: multifarious meanings through community, ecology, and food
… of stewardship gardens, sacredness in the landscape, is explored through an understanding of its components - Centeredness, Natural Boundary, Connectedness, and Particularness - as suggested by Landscape Architect, Randolph Hester. The aspect of particularness is expanded on as an …
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Valued Spaces of Adolescents in a Rural Community
… preferences. With this information at hand, a landscape architect can begin to understand the intricacies of designing a place for adolescents that supports their developmental needs and will be a place that they enjoy. This study was a partial replication of a study Venues and Values conducted …
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Learning Landscapes: Theoretical Issues and Design Considerations for the Development of Childrens Educational Landscapes
… research available to designers of educational landscapes and determine what aspects of that research can be extracted and applied to a physical landscape design. Its purpose is to create an awareness and understanding of the issues that designers should take into consideration to make an …
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Steps to the identification of the residue of the cultural heritage landscape of the University of Pretoria's Hatfield campus 1910-1960
As the Campus Landscape Architect for the University of Pretoria, it has been an on-going challenge to gain an understanding and reliable data on the history of the landscape of the University of Pretoria's Hatfield campus. With the pace of development taking place on the campus, in order to meet …
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The Heping District, Tianjin, China: conservation of a cultural landscape
… the design process, exploring the role of landscape architect as “curators” given the “proto-urban condition,” which is “spaces for emergent phenomena, for social, political, economic and cultural change” , and finally, exploring how design interacts with decision making, and how to improve …
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Tactile Textile
… manipulation and its potential relationship with landscape architecture. Tactility bonds the two worlds of fashion and landscape together. It changes in scale, intimacy and movement. The study explores how textiles perform in relation to the following principles; movement, climate, reaction, …
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