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Understanding Spaces Of Abandonment Through Virtual Frameworks In Landscape Architecture, Aus Perez Apr 2021

Understanding Spaces Of Abandonment Through Virtual Frameworks In Landscape Architecture, Aus Perez

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In recent years, design professionals have implemented many contemporary landscape architecture projects across the United States. With a primary goal of returning nature to urban environments, contemporary landscape architects and other transdisciplinary partners work diligently to sculpt physical spaces that reflect the human-living experience. However, a leap into the world of video game design could allow landscape architects and urban planners to more freely create virtual social environments to address rising issues of abandonment in today’s urban and rural spaces. Video game mechanics and methodologies can be used extensively in the disciplines of design that value participatory processes, like landscape …


Blazing A Trail For The Future Of Paris, Texas, Ashton Wunsch May 2020

Blazing A Trail For The Future Of Paris, Texas, Ashton Wunsch

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A Design Framework For Rural Community Prosperity, Austin Arens Mar 2020

A Design Framework For Rural Community Prosperity, Austin Arens

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In rural America, particularly the rural Midwest, the salad days of the distant past seem to be turning from realities into memories. Shrinking populations, ailing infrastructure, and a general decline in quality of life over the past 50 years have left many small communities thinking critically about their future. These social and economic pressures have acted as a call to arms for a few rural communities across the Midwest, especially in the state of Nebraska. The community of Valentine, Nebraska, situated at the crossroads of two highways that span the continent, a regional hub for every household within a 2 …


Play With Power: A City Park Along The Trinity River, Xiwei Shen Jan 2017

Play With Power: A City Park Along The Trinity River, Xiwei Shen

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No abstract provided.


Park Politics: Political Influences On Frederick Law Olmsted & The Creation Of Central Park, Kathryn Chow Jan 2016

Park Politics: Political Influences On Frederick Law Olmsted & The Creation Of Central Park, Kathryn Chow

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Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (1822-1903), renowned landscape architect and journalist, was also a political activist who saw urban parks as a way to facilitate social reform. This study focuses on Olmsted’s role as Superintendent of Central Park (1858-1861), evaluating the impacts of politics throughout his campaign for Superintendent and during the construction of Central Park. Politics, in this study, refers to both the interactions between Republican and Democratic parties, and the interactions between Olmsted and his constituents, in both the government and the intellectual sphere. This study will provide readers with a fuller understanding of how local political disputes, ideas …


The Successional Grid, Erin Percevault May 2015

The Successional Grid, Erin Percevault

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No abstract provided.


From The Spoils: Revitalizing Abandoned Coal Mines And Their Communities, Jamie Yousten May 2014

From The Spoils: Revitalizing Abandoned Coal Mines And Their Communities, Jamie Yousten

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No abstract provided.


Butte Mine Revitalization Masterplan, Garrett Wolf Apr 2010

Butte Mine Revitalization Masterplan, Garrett Wolf

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No abstract provided.