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Prospect-Refuge Theory Revisited: A Search For Safety In Dynamic Public Spaces With A Reference To Design, Priti Ramanujam
Prospect-Refuge Theory Revisited: A Search For Safety In Dynamic Public Spaces With A Reference To Design, Priti Ramanujam
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
Prospect-refuge theory (Appleton 1975) is based on habitat theory (Darwin 1958) which states that the ability to see (prospect) but not be seen (refuge) is basic to many biological needs. According to Appleton, the ability to see without being seen increases perceived safety which increases the esthetic pleasure experienced in the environment. Wekerle and Egan (1991) state that the perception of safety is necessary for feelings of enjoyment and comfort in urban open space. Appleton's hypothesized factors--prospect and refuge--are known to affect people's perception of how safe an environment appears to be. This thesis studies perception of safety in dynamic …
The Green: Building A Viable Program For Forgotten Public Space In Uptown Dallas, Larry Biff Sturgess
The Green: Building A Viable Program For Forgotten Public Space In Uptown Dallas, Larry Biff Sturgess
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
The Uptown area of Dallas has seen rapid and drastic change over the last fifteen years. The conversion of the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas (KATY) Railroad line into the KATY Trail has instigated measurable increases in adjacent property values, while new middle and high-end condominiums and townhomes have replaced older and often dilapidated single- and multi-family structures. Extended trolley service and new light rail service now provide multiple means of access into the area from further-reaching regions. The overall result has provided Uptown with a vibrant mix of new residential, retail and business opportunities, with a quality of life that has visible …
Finding Common Ground: Community Garden As Connector Between Culture, Nature, And The Individual, Valerie Dawn Warner
Finding Common Ground: Community Garden As Connector Between Culture, Nature, And The Individual, Valerie Dawn Warner
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
In the vacant spaces between buildings, in the corners of school yards, in open fields - wherever community gardens are deliberately placed - the space between culture and nature grows smaller. Closing this gap can come about on the common ground created in a collaborative spirit: the community changes the space, and then the space ultimately changes the community. This is the connective power of the humble community garden. This study finds that in urban environments, a community garden can be the link between individuals and their community, and between people and nature, imparting health of body and mind, feelings …
Career Influences For Women In Landscape Architecture, Catherine Louise Acuna
Career Influences For Women In Landscape Architecture, Catherine Louise Acuna
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
This research explores the insights of successful women who are pioneering the practice of landscape architecture in today's practice. Their perspectives regarding the impediments and advantages of women in current practice are examined within the public, private and academic practices of landscape architecture. Also examined are methods that are being used to overcome limitations, as well as advantages utilized in each area of practice. Finally, critical counsel and perspectives of the future of the profession are directed toward future generations of women in landscape architecture who aspire to follow in their path.
The Moderating Effects Of Vegetation On Human Violent Behavior Caused By Environmental Stressors, Jieun Lim
The Moderating Effects Of Vegetation On Human Violent Behavior Caused By Environmental Stressors, Jieun Lim
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
Numerous studies explain the relationship between the environment and human behavior using the term "environmental stressor." Some examples of environmental stressors are temperature, air pollution, noise, and density and crowding. The negative effects of these environmental stressors on humans occur in the form of mental fatigue and lead to increased anger, aggression, and even violence. Environments such as urban forests provide a number of benefits for one's quality of life. People living in vegetated areas feel lower levels of fear, and have less aggressive and violent behavior. In this light, this study hypothesizes that population density in urbanized areas can …
Prospect-Refuge Theory Revisited: A Search For Safety In Dynamic Public Spaces With A Reference To Design, Priti Ramanujam
Prospect-Refuge Theory Revisited: A Search For Safety In Dynamic Public Spaces With A Reference To Design, Priti Ramanujam
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
Prospect-refuge theory (Appleton 1975) is based on habitat theory (Darwin 1958) which states that the ability to see (prospect) but not be seen (refuge) is basic to many biological needs. According to Appleton, the ability to see without being seen increases perceived safety which increases the esthetic pleasure experienced in the environment. Wekerle and Egan (1991) state that the perception of safety is necessary for feelings of enjoyment and comfort in urban open space. Appleton's hypothesized factors--prospect and refuge--are known to affect people's perception of how safe an environment appears to be. This thesis studies perception of safety in dynamic …
The Green: Building A Viable Program For Forgotten Public Space In Uptown Dallas, Larry Biff Sturgess
The Green: Building A Viable Program For Forgotten Public Space In Uptown Dallas, Larry Biff Sturgess
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
The Uptown area of Dallas has seen rapid and drastic change over the last fifteen years. The conversion of the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas (KATY) Railroad line into the KATY Trail has instigated measurable increases in adjacent property values, while new middle and high-end condominiums and townhomes have replaced older and often dilapidated single- and multi-family structures. Extended trolley service and new light rail service now provide multiple means of access into the area from further-reaching regions. The overall result has provided Uptown with a vibrant mix of new residential, retail and business opportunities, with a quality of life that has visible …
Finding Common Ground: Community Garden As Connector Between Culture, Nature, And The Individual, Valerie Dawn Warner
Finding Common Ground: Community Garden As Connector Between Culture, Nature, And The Individual, Valerie Dawn Warner
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
In the vacant spaces between buildings, in the corners of school yards, in open fields - wherever community gardens are deliberately placed - the space between culture and nature grows smaller. Closing this gap can come about on the common ground created in a collaborative spirit: the community changes the space, and then the space ultimately changes the community. This is the connective power of the humble community garden. This study finds that in urban environments, a community garden can be the link between individuals and their community, and between people and nature, imparting health of body and mind, feelings …
Career Influences For Women In Landscape Architecture, Catherine Louise Acuna
Career Influences For Women In Landscape Architecture, Catherine Louise Acuna
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
This research explores the insights of successful women who are pioneering the practice of landscape architecture in today's practice. Their perspectives regarding the impediments and advantages of women in current practice are examined within the public, private and academic practices of landscape architecture. Also examined are methods that are being used to overcome limitations, as well as advantages utilized in each area of practice. Finally, critical counsel and perspectives of the future of the profession are directed toward future generations of women in landscape architecture who aspire to follow in their path.
The Moderating Effects Of Vegetation On Human Violent Behavior Caused By Environmental Stressors, Jieun Lim
The Moderating Effects Of Vegetation On Human Violent Behavior Caused By Environmental Stressors, Jieun Lim
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
Numerous studies explain the relationship between the environment and human behavior using the term "environmental stressor." Some examples of environmental stressors are temperature, air pollution, noise, and density and crowding. The negative effects of these environmental stressors on humans occur in the form of mental fatigue and lead to increased anger, aggression, and even violence. Environments such as urban forests provide a number of benefits for one's quality of life. People living in vegetated areas feel lower levels of fear, and have less aggressive and violent behavior. In this light, this study hypothesizes that population density in urbanized areas can …
The Connection Between Landscape Architecture And Water Quality: A Survey Of Landscape Architects In Texas, Andrea Lora Davis
The Connection Between Landscape Architecture And Water Quality: A Survey Of Landscape Architects In Texas, Andrea Lora Davis
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
For local jurisdictions and consumers, water quality has become importantas development pressures and expanding population has increased the strain on existing water supplies. Aging infrastructure, limited financial resources, and environmental regulations are forcing many users to seek alternatives to traditional water treatment and storm conveyance systems. Landscape architects can utilize many environmentally sound methods and technology to protect water quality. The opportunity is there to incorporate measures such as buffers, low-impact development, open space design, rain gardens, basins, and native plantings in the design process. A survey of practicing landscape architects in Texas demonstrated the trends of alternative measures applications …
Planning Cities For The Other Percent Of The Residents: Impacts On The Elderly And Disabled Community, Kellie D. Foster
Planning Cities For The Other Percent Of The Residents: Impacts On The Elderly And Disabled Community, Kellie D. Foster
Planning Theses
The urban environment has evolved in the time since the Second World War. Advances in technology have been a catalyst for numerous urban problems; urban sprawl, poverty and a shortage of low to moderate-income housing, for example. When addressing these issues, city planners often neglect the needs of the disabled community. This is cause for concern because society is aging and due to advancements in medicine, the disabled population is growing exponentially. The focus of this thesis is the roll urban design and city planning has in the issues that plague the disabled community by examining both physical design and …
Towards A "Critical Regionalism" For Rapidly Developing Areas Of Texas., David Dumez Hopman
Towards A "Critical Regionalism" For Rapidly Developing Areas Of Texas., David Dumez Hopman
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
The published intellectual discourse on "Critical Regionalism" is more prolific in the literature of architecture and planning than that of landscape architecture. As a result, the existing parameters used to define regional elements are not always useful to landscape architects, particularly in rapidly developing areas in which there are few, easily recognizable, regional components to the landscape. This thesis uses the ideas embodied in Critical Regionalism as a means to reveal how selected landscape architects and landscape designers interpret the landscapes and architecture of Texas through their individual landscape design philosophies and methodologies. Specific methodologies for extracting regional elements from …
A Border Crossing Station, Brownsville, Texas, Steven Quevedo
A Border Crossing Station, Brownsville, Texas, Steven Quevedo
School of Architecture Theses
The increasing influx of Latin Americans into the Southwest United States as a result of social, political and economic upheaval in their homelands is a growing concern for the state of Texas. A new immigration station is proposed for the Texas - Mexico border which would be essential to the journey of the international migrant. Serving simultaneously both as an administrative and educational facility, this place of entry into the United States would serve to enhance the immigrant's arrival and adaptation to their new world. The complex would represent the freedoms provided by the Constitution, serving symbolically as a haven …
A Museum Of Photography In The West End Historic District Of Downtown Dallas, Meredith Bynum
A Museum Of Photography In The West End Historic District Of Downtown Dallas, Meredith Bynum
School of Architecture Theses
To design a museum that emphasizes the perceptual and experiential aspects of viewing photographs and films that responds to the urban context of the West End Historical District. The Museum experience will emphasize a progression through a variety of spaces designed to emphasize the viewing of two-dimensional images and contrasting this experience with three-dimensional real space. An inquiry into the nature of photography is an on-going concern that will be reflected in the building. **UTA Libraries seeks the author of the publication about the status of their work**
A Sensory Garden For The Dallas Arboretum, Betty Bornefeld Presnall
A Sensory Garden For The Dallas Arboretum, Betty Bornefeld Presnall
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
Design is most often carried out as an aesthetic exercise in visual affect and spatial treatment. If more stimulation of other human senses (orienting, auditory, smell / taste, visual, and haptic) were to occur in a place, perhaps the place would become more meaningful and memorable. In an effort to address this hypothesis, a Sensory Garden was designed, and hopefully will be implemented. As far as can be determined no other gardens in the United States exist which were designed explicitly to stimulate all the senses. There is a Fragrance Garden at the Strybing Arboretum at Golden Gate Park in …
City Hall Square, Waco, Texas, Paul Weathers
City Hall Square, Waco, Texas, Paul Weathers
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
A Town Square has existed in Waco since the city was established in 1850. The history of the square in Waco is similar to the development of other cities and open spaces in the nineteenth century American west. In attempting to create a Square for Waco certain issues are addressed concerning the application of appropriate urban forms to a site which has drastically changes in the last twenty years. Urban renewal razed many of the structures which defined the urban fabric. Newer structures were erected on the open site which had no relation to the historical and physical context of …
A Performing Arts Center For Arlington, Texas, Rebecca L. Boles
A Performing Arts Center For Arlington, Texas, Rebecca L. Boles
School of Architecture Theses
In the spring of 1983, several Arlington community groups formed the Performing Arts Coalition. Foremost among their priorities was the establishment of a Performing Arts Center for their community. Arlington undisputedly needs a cultural center and the growth of coalition groups is proof that the city has sufficient interest to sustain such an effort. A performing arts center would be beneficial to the coalition for many reasons. Shared staff and facilities increases the cost effectiveness of the member organizations. A consolidation of facilities would produce the best equipped showcase for the performing arts, and the consolidation of creative talent and …
The Phoenix Bird Rehabilitation Center, Cleburne, Texas, Thomas M. Bodell
The Phoenix Bird Rehabilitation Center, Cleburne, Texas, Thomas M. Bodell
School of Architecture Theses
The Phoenix Center, presently of Arlington, Texas is the largest bird rehabilitation center in North Texas. It is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the preservation of Texas avian wildlife and has been rapidly expanding during the last several years. The Center is currently engaged in acquiring land and donations for the construction of new facilities. A preliminary site plan for the new facility was prepared by Professor James Turner's graduate landscape class, LARC 5674 during the fall semester 1982. As the architectural consultant for the project, Bodell worked closely with the landscape students to develop the site plan which was …
Program For Development Of Harvest Baptist Church, Watauga, Texas, Randall L. Mayne
Program For Development Of Harvest Baptist Church, Watauga, Texas, Randall L. Mayne
Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses
This text represents the comprehensive planning efforts for the development of twenty acres of land owned by the Harvest Baptist Church, located in the City of Watauga, Texas. Synthesis of the available data will take the form of the Master Plan and the initial and current information will serve as the base from which decisions can be made during the development process. The master plan process is a suitable approach for the Church to maximize the potential of their land..
A New County Courthouse And Square For Dallas, Texas, Richard Wintersole
A New County Courthouse And Square For Dallas, Texas, Richard Wintersole
School of Architecture Theses
Dallas County recently purchased a site in downtown which the City's Master Plan has earmarked for a new County Courthouse to be constructed in 1995. The site is located at the northern edge of an open urban space which contains John F Kennedy Memorial Plaza and John Neely Bryan County Park. Existing on the site and providing an integral edge to the open urban square is the Purse Building, a warehouse constructed in the Chicago Style in 1898. Representatives of the County and the County Historic Commission have expressed an interest in incorporating the Purse Building into the design for …