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Community Perceptions Of Golf Course Landscapes: Lessons Learned From Arlington, Texas Case Studies, Jon-Michael Clothier Dec 2015

Community Perceptions Of Golf Course Landscapes: Lessons Learned From Arlington, Texas Case Studies, Jon-Michael Clothier

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

The purpose of this study is to identify the resident perceptions of golf course landscapes in communities around golf courses within Arlington, Texas. It specifically focuses on the residents’ feelings evoked by the golf course landscapes as well as any impact to the residents’ lives outside of actually playing golf. The study seeks to find connections between traditional golf course design and urban design around the edges of golf courses extending outward to the surrounding communities. The physical relationships between golf courses with their surrounding communities vary. Especially in suburban settings, there is a strong connection between the course and …

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Perceptions Of Thermal Comfort: Landscape Design Attributes Based On The Shops At La Cantera In San Antonio, Texas, Krishan Patel Dec 2015

Perceptions Of Thermal Comfort: Landscape Design Attributes Based On The Shops At La Cantera In San Antonio, Texas, Krishan Patel

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

The focus of this thesis was to understand people’s perceptions of thermal comfort. Understanding design attributes that affect thermal comfort in outdoor spaces is necessary, as it will have a major influence on the design of urban outdoor spaces (Nikolopoulou and Steemers, 2003). The research will have great implications on the field of landscape architecture, architecture, urban design, and planning, Indoor malls are no longer being built. The trend is moving towards lifestyle centers. Lifestyle centers offer an experience that can’t be replicated by indoor malls. Lifestyle centers are open to the sky and as a result, they are exposed …

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Evaluating The Impact Of Sustainable Built Environment Commitments And Outcomes On Respiratory Health: A Longitudinal Case Study Of Two Texas Cities, Megan Topham Dec 2015

Evaluating The Impact Of Sustainable Built Environment Commitments And Outcomes On Respiratory Health: A Longitudinal Case Study Of Two Texas Cities, Megan Topham

Planning Dissertations - Archive

As population continues to grow the need for creating efficient and effective built environments that balance the three pillars of sustainability, environment, economic and equity, becomes even more pertinent. This exploratory research assisted in bridging the gap between understanding sustainable policy development and resulting impact on the corresponding outcomes, including influences from political culture. Followed by an overarching view of the changes in sustainable built environment outcomes over the course of nine years and how these outcomes influenced air quality measurements and inpatient asthma discharges. The case study methodology, established by Yin (2014), was utilized to address the research questions …

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Buildout Population Projections, Chelsea Irby Dec 2015

Buildout Population Projections, Chelsea Irby

Planning Masters Professional Reports - Archive

Buildout population projections are used by various municipalities and entities to project the ultimate population, or carrying capacity, of a specific area. There are many methods used to calculate buildout population. It is generally done by identifying the highest allowed uses in the vacant areas, based on the future land use plan, and calculating the maximum number of households and population. The maximum population in the vacant areas is then added to the existing population in that area to get the buildout population. Municipalities generally use these type of projections in comprehensive plans to set a vision for the future …

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Identification Of Suitable Locations For Permeable Pavements And Bioretention Ponds / Rain Gardens Using Gis Suitability Analysis For Enhanced Stormwater Management Capacity In The City Of Dallas, Muzaib Riaz, Ardeshir Anjomani Dec 2015

Identification Of Suitable Locations For Permeable Pavements And Bioretention Ponds / Rain Gardens Using Gis Suitability Analysis For Enhanced Stormwater Management Capacity In The City Of Dallas, Muzaib Riaz, Ardeshir Anjomani

Planning Masters Professional Reports - Archive

Low Impact Development (LID) Strategies have shown effectiveness in managing stormwater efficiently at its source. LID strategies can be utilized to manage storm water in coordination with conventional stormwater management infrastructure to increase efficiency and reduce flooding in case of extreme precipitation events. In this study GIS suitability analysis technique has been used to identify suitable locations for permeable pavements and bioretention ponds / rain gardens; two of the four main LID Best Management Practices (BMPs) within the City of Dallas. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to determine weights of factors for suitability analysis. Case studies from Bryan …

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Stream Daylighting Restoration As Green Infrastructure: A Visual Preference Survey For The Future Revitalization Of Dallas' Mill Creek, Ryan Matthew Brown Nov 2015

Stream Daylighting Restoration As Green Infrastructure: A Visual Preference Survey For The Future Revitalization Of Dallas' Mill Creek, Ryan Matthew Brown

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

The purpose of this research is to study the visual design elements of stream daylighting through a visual preference survey and apply them to a site along the Mill Creek flowline in Dallas, Texas. This research begins with a study on identifying a specific site location within the Mill Creek watershed. From that study, a visual preference survey determined which visual design elements of stream daylighting were found to be the most desirable. The most desirable visual design elements were then used to digitally depict a suggested stream daylighting outcome through the use of before and after images of the …

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Restraints On Design: Adventure Playgrounds And Landscape Architecture, Karen Teague Jul 2015

Restraints On Design: Adventure Playgrounds And Landscape Architecture, Karen Teague

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

This thesis examines minimally designed adventure playgrounds, what landscape architects, landscape designers and educators think about this type of play space and if it could become a larger part of the American play inventory. It also explores the roles landscape architects have in designing these play areas while still allowing the intended users, the children, to take a lead design role and attain the intended benefits of the space. To do this, this study explores the origins of adventure playgrounds, their ability to develop in the United States, and how landscape architects are involved in this process. Landscape architects, designers …

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Study Of Environmental Variables Affecting Walkability: Learning From Main Street In Downtown Fort Worth, Xitong Li Jul 2015

Study Of Environmental Variables Affecting Walkability: Learning From Main Street In Downtown Fort Worth, Xitong Li

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

Walking has widely been considered by researchers to be important for physical health and a key to increasing social interactions in the local community (Layden, 2003), as well as a mode of transportation in such an era of high fossil fuel price (Maibach, 2009). The negative effects of low-density, automobile-dependent, segregated-use patterns of land and transportation systems typical of postwar suburban development are attracting public health attention. As a result, more designers and urban planners are beginning to take the concept of "walkable design" into consideration in their projects. In order to promote walking activity in terms of urban design, …

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Complete Streets Design Elements And Their Impact On Travel Behavior: Learning From The Bagby Street Reconstruction In Houston, Tx, Alexandra T. Tracz Jul 2015

Complete Streets Design Elements And Their Impact On Travel Behavior: Learning From The Bagby Street Reconstruction In Houston, Tx, Alexandra T. Tracz

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

There are several studies linking travel behavior to various other topics within urban design but none directly examine Complete Streets. This travel behavior study is significant in that it looks at specific streetscape design features rather than studying density or land use of a particular area. This research examines if and how travel behavior is influenced by specific design elements on Complete Streets using Bagby Street Reconstruction in Houston, Texas as a case study. Bagby Street Reconstruction is one of the first Complete Streets projects in Houston completed by Design Workshop and Walter P Moore. The project is a section …

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The Relationship Between Park Characteristics And Human Social Behavior: Learning From Main Street Garden In Dallas, Texas, Junjie He Jul 2015

The Relationship Between Park Characteristics And Human Social Behavior: Learning From Main Street Garden In Dallas, Texas, Junjie He

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

The objective of this thesis is to study the relationship between park characteristics and human social behavior in Main Street Garden Park in Dallas. Whyte highlights several characteristics that promote the successful use of urban spaces: sitting space, nature, concessions, pathways, and triangulation (Whyte 1980). The ways in which these five characteristics influence human social behavior is the focus of this thesis. The aspects of human social behavior studied in this thesis are the proportions of couples, women, children, and pet-owners; usage times; self-congestion, meaning the amount and location of new interaction; and individualism. Using Main Street Garden in downtown …

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Representative Bureaucracy And The Indirect Effects Of Substantive Co-Worker Representation, Nita Clark Jan 2015

Representative Bureaucracy And The Indirect Effects Of Substantive Co-Worker Representation, Nita Clark

Planning Dissertations - Archive

The theory of representative bureaucracy has been suggested as an equity oriented tool that could work to alter the negative aspects of majority rule. Ongoing debates over the best way to ensure and enhance equity for underrepresented groups continue to question the value of representative bureaucracy as it has concentrated on passive (descriptive) and active representation. Such representation where administrators look like the clientele they are serving and subsequently work to generate outcomes for those clients certainly has value. However it is not a certainty that a bureaucrat sharing a similar traits as the group being served (passive representation) will …

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Ellis County / Midlothian To Waxahachie Regional Trail Corridor Research, James Richards, Taner R. Özdil, Michael C. Walton, Nhasala Manandhar, Alexandra Tracz Jan 2015

Ellis County / Midlothian To Waxahachie Regional Trail Corridor Research, James Richards, Taner R. Özdil, Michael C. Walton, Nhasala Manandhar, Alexandra Tracz

Landscape Architecture Faculty Publications - Archive

The research project examines the alignment options and feasibility of constructing a regional shared-use path (trail) facility in Ellis County, Texas, linking the cities of Midlothian and Waxahachie and connecting to the larger Regional Veloweb (Dallas - Fort Worth's regional trail network) adopted by the Regional Transportation Council as part of the Metropolitan transportation plan. The project includes coordination with key stakeholders, examining existing conditions, community outreach, and preparation of alternative alignment options for public feedback. This report details the preliminary alternative alignments and the final recommended trail alignment for the regional shared-use path, a diagrammatic plan, and the extent …

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Cfmd Research Journal 2015 Volume 4, Center For Metropolitan Density, Michael P. Buckley, Taner R. Ozdil, Kevin Sloan Jan 2015

Cfmd Research Journal 2015 Volume 4, Center For Metropolitan Density, Michael P. Buckley, Taner R. Ozdil, Kevin Sloan

Center for Metropolitan Density Publications - Archive

The Center's research efforts focus on best practices to develop multi component urban projects, such as this Journal's article on Public Private Partnerships, and on Designed Open Space to create value. Our scenarios are feasibility-tested with market support and achievement of investment returns. For cities, these scenarios are also sound fiscal contributors of the long term, and more valuable investments with better economic efficiency and environmental sustainability.

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Maya Construction History: Explorations Through Buildings Archaeology And Conservation, Leah M. Mccurdy Jan 2015

Maya Construction History: Explorations Through Buildings Archaeology And Conservation, Leah M. Mccurdy

Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Publications - Archive

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The Connections Between Lynch's Four Methods Of Increasing Adaptability And Fort Worth's Urban Villages Program, Chiyang Xu Sep 2014

The Connections Between Lynch's Four Methods Of Increasing Adaptability And Fort Worth's Urban Villages Program, Chiyang Xu

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

The purpose of this thesis is to identify the relationship between Lynch's (1981) four methods of increasing adaptability and the planned changes in city form of Fort Worth's Urban Villages program. The four methods of increasing adaptability, based on the theory that deals with human values and settlement forms, were first described by Lynch (1981). According to Lynch, the four methods of increasing adaptability are improved access, reduced interference between parts, use of standardized units, and excess capacity. By manipulating these four methods of increasing adaptability, planners and landscape architects can increase the adaptability of city form, which can in …

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Communihood: Being A Planning Activist In The Twenty-First Century, Ali Tayebi Sep 2014

Communihood: Being A Planning Activist In The Twenty-First Century, Ali Tayebi

Planning Dissertations - Archive

Introducing communihood as a hybrid concept and defining planning activism as a planners' role outside the dominant planning power structure are two main contributions of this dissertation in scholarly debates among planning scholars about the shape of cities in twenty-first century and the 'best' role for planners in a postmodern society. Communihood is introduced as a hybrid alternative for historical approaches in differentiating between community and neighborhood based on their social or spatial characteristics that has been escalated in the last decades by the development of Information Technology and Social Media. Therefore, communihood is defined as a synthesis of the …

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The Connections Between Lynch's Four Methods Of Increasing Adaptability And Fort Worth's Urban Villages Program, Chiyang Xu Sep 2014

The Connections Between Lynch's Four Methods Of Increasing Adaptability And Fort Worth's Urban Villages Program, Chiyang Xu

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

The purpose of this thesis is to identify the relationship between Lynch's (1981) four methods of increasing adaptability and the planned changes in city form of Fort Worth's Urban Villages program. The four methods of increasing adaptability, based on the theory that deals with human values and settlement forms, were first described by Lynch (1981). According to Lynch, the four methods of increasing adaptability are improved access, reduced interference between parts, use of standardized units, and excess capacity. By manipulating these four methods of increasing adaptability, planners and landscape architects can increase the adaptability of city form, which can in …

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Landscape Fragmentation As An Impact Of Shale Gas Drilling In North Texas, Anjana Pradhananga Jul 2014

Landscape Fragmentation As An Impact Of Shale Gas Drilling In North Texas, Anjana Pradhananga

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

The objective of this study is to determine the degree to which shale gas drilling contributes to the fragmentation of landscapes in North Texas, especially in prairies. The study is conducted on the Barnett Shale area where shale gas exploration began in the 1980's (Arthur et al. 2008). The Barnett Shale area lies under much of the developed regions of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area as well as beneath an extensive amount of rural countryside mainly used for private recreational lands, exurban residential development, suburbs, and improved pasture and ranching. However, most of the drilling is occurring in the Grand …

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The Design Attributes Of Identity In Revitalized Commercial Districts: Implications Of Stakeholders' Perceptions Of The Bishop Arts District, Chunling Wu Jul 2014

The Design Attributes Of Identity In Revitalized Commercial Districts: Implications Of Stakeholders' Perceptions Of The Bishop Arts District, Chunling Wu

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

This thesis uses qualitative research methods to study the design attributes of identity in revitalized neighborhood commercial districts. Using the Bishop Arts District as a case study, the thesis analyzes the perceptions of stakeholders and the researcher's on-site observations to understand how design attributes reinforce the identity of these districts.Neighborhood commercial district revitalization is one type of urban revitalization. Its goal is to introduce a commercial shopping district into a former industrial or retail area within a historic neighborhood, where a "sense of place" can be produced and consumed (Chang, 2011, p.5). This approach became popular because it would not …

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Users' Perceptions Of Open Space Benefits In Master Planned Communities In North Texas, Shulin Liang Jul 2014

Users' Perceptions Of Open Space Benefits In Master Planned Communities In North Texas, Shulin Liang

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

This study examines the relationship between users and open spaces benefits in North Texas. Specifically, it probes the residents' perception of open spaces benefits in master planned communities. The importance of open spaces is indisputable. They encourage the broad range of activity required by our pluralistic urban society with its racial and ethnic groups of all ages, conditions, and needs (Woolley, 2003). To encourage types of activity that help establish a positive pattern of use, landscape architects can develop the form and the character of the open space as a complete subsystem in communities. To help future landscape architects better …

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The Design Attributes Of Identity In Revitalized Commercial Districts: Implications Of Stakeholders' Perceptions Of The Bishop Arts District, Chunling Wu Jul 2014

The Design Attributes Of Identity In Revitalized Commercial Districts: Implications Of Stakeholders' Perceptions Of The Bishop Arts District, Chunling Wu

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

This thesis uses qualitative research methods to study the design attributes of identity in revitalized neighborhood commercial districts. Using the Bishop Arts District as a case study, the thesis analyzes the perceptions of stakeholders and the researcher's on-site observations to understand how design attributes reinforce the identity of these districts.Neighborhood commercial district revitalization is one type of urban revitalization. Its goal is to introduce a commercial shopping district into a former industrial or retail area within a historic neighborhood, where a "sense of place" can be produced and consumed (Chang, 2011, p.5). This approach became popular because it would not …

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Planting Design And Its Impact On Efficacy In Therapeutic Garden Design For Dementia Patients In Long-Term Care Facilities In North Texas, Cuiyan Mei Jul 2014

Planting Design And Its Impact On Efficacy In Therapeutic Garden Design For Dementia Patients In Long-Term Care Facilities In North Texas, Cuiyan Mei

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

This research addresses planting design and its therapeutic benefits for bringing lifeenhancing therapy to people dealing with dementia. The senses heightened by plants have proven to be powerful stimulators of early, emotional childhood memories due to the structure and evolution of the human brain (Minter, 2005). Plant materials used in therapeutic gardens are carefully chosen to stimulate the senses of dementia patients (Cooper Marcus and Barnes, 1999; Minter, 2005; Chalfont, 2008) and to enhance safety and security, orientation, stimulation, and autonomy. Many long-term care facilities for dementia patients have been built in the United States to provide settings for optimal …

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Assessing The Value Of Multiple Design Degrees For Landscape Architects: Learning From Professionals In North Texas, Alicia Rivera Jul 2014

Assessing The Value Of Multiple Design Degrees For Landscape Architects: Learning From Professionals In North Texas, Alicia Rivera

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

Many of the early professionals in the landscape architecture profession had other previous design education (Tishler, 1989). For example, Hideo Sasaki and Lawrence Halprin had exposure to other academic fields, like environmental design and architecture (Mann, 2009). According to ASLA: 2013 Survey of Graduating Students data nearly one tenth of the landscape architecture graduate degree recipients had a previous degree in landscape architecture and about one fifth of them had a previous degree in another design or planning field (ASLA, 2013). It seems like acquiring another design and or planning degree before coming to landscape architecture is common among landscape …

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Assessing The Economic Value Of Linear Landscapes: Learning From The Katy And Santa Fe Trails In Dallas, Texas, Dylan Michael Stewart Jul 2014

Assessing The Economic Value Of Linear Landscapes: Learning From The Katy And Santa Fe Trails In Dallas, Texas, Dylan Michael Stewart

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

This research is an economic value study for linear landscapes. Additionally, the research builds upon relevant landscape architecture literature in concern to the economic value of landscape. Specifically, the focus occurs upon a landscape typology that is relevant to today's design practice (Crompton, 2001; Brander et.al, 2011; Sherer, 2006). The research's relevancy stems from the landscape architect's ability to analyze and understand dynamic, linear landscapes as they stimulate economic activity beyond their direct footprint (see such as Vandermeulen et al., 2011; Ozdil, 2008; Tzoulas et al., 2007; de Groot et al., 2002; Quayle, 1995).The purpose of this research is to …

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Users' Perceptions Of Open Space Benefits In Master Planned Communities In North Texas, Shulin Liang Jul 2014

Users' Perceptions Of Open Space Benefits In Master Planned Communities In North Texas, Shulin Liang

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

This study examines the relationship between users and open spaces benefits in North Texas. Specifically, it probes the residents' perception of open spaces benefits in master planned communities. The importance of open spaces is indisputable. They encourage the broad range of activity required by our pluralistic urban society with its racial and ethnic groups of all ages, conditions, and needs (Woolley, 2003). To encourage types of activity that help establish a positive pattern of use, landscape architects can develop the form and the character of the open space as a complete subsystem in communities. To help future landscape architects better …

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Perspectives On Environmental Landscape Performance Indicators And Methods: Learning From Landscape Architecture Foundation's Case Study Investigation Program, Sameepa Kashyap Modi Jul 2014

Perspectives On Environmental Landscape Performance Indicators And Methods: Learning From Landscape Architecture Foundation's Case Study Investigation Program, Sameepa Kashyap Modi

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

Case studies are frequently utilized in landscape architecture to evaluate finished projects and to inform future education and practice (Francis, 1999 and 2003; Ahern et.al., 2007). The effective dissemination of developing theories and knowledge base in the landscape architecture profession seems promising with the adaptation of case study methods (Francis, 2001). The case studies are specifically found to be suitable in landscape performance studies as it can be easily adapted to various project types. Numerous case studies are found in landscape architecture literature, especially after Francis' seminal work in 1999 on the case study method, and more structured study attempts …

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Planting Design And Its Impact On Efficacy In Therapeutic Garden Design For Dementia Patients In Long-Term Care Facilities In North Texas, Cuiyan Mei Jul 2014

Planting Design And Its Impact On Efficacy In Therapeutic Garden Design For Dementia Patients In Long-Term Care Facilities In North Texas, Cuiyan Mei

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

This research addresses planting design and its therapeutic benefits for bringing lifeenhancing therapy to people dealing with dementia. The senses heightened by plants have proven to be powerful stimulators of early, emotional childhood memories due to the structure and evolution of the human brain (Minter, 2005). Plant materials used in therapeutic gardens are carefully chosen to stimulate the senses of dementia patients (Cooper Marcus and Barnes, 1999; Minter, 2005; Chalfont, 2008) and to enhance safety and security, orientation, stimulation, and autonomy. Many long-term care facilities for dementia patients have been built in the United States to provide settings for optimal …

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Assessing The Value Of Multiple Design Degrees For Landscape Architects: Learning From Professionals In North Texas, Alicia Rivera Jul 2014

Assessing The Value Of Multiple Design Degrees For Landscape Architects: Learning From Professionals In North Texas, Alicia Rivera

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

Many of the early professionals in the landscape architecture profession had other previous design education (Tishler, 1989). For example, Hideo Sasaki and Lawrence Halprin had exposure to other academic fields, like environmental design and architecture (Mann, 2009). According to ASLA: 2013 Survey of Graduating Students data nearly one tenth of the landscape architecture graduate degree recipients had a previous degree in landscape architecture and about one fifth of them had a previous degree in another design or planning field (ASLA, 2013). It seems like acquiring another design and or planning degree before coming to landscape architecture is common among landscape …

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Landscape Fragmentation As An Impact Of Shale Gas Drilling In North Texas, Anjana Pradhananga Jul 2014

Landscape Fragmentation As An Impact Of Shale Gas Drilling In North Texas, Anjana Pradhananga

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

The objective of this study is to determine the degree to which shale gas drilling contributes to the fragmentation of landscapes in North Texas, especially in prairies. The study is conducted on the Barnett Shale area where shale gas exploration began in the 1980's (Arthur et al. 2008). The Barnett Shale area lies under much of the developed regions of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area as well as beneath an extensive amount of rural countryside mainly used for private recreational lands, exurban residential development, suburbs, and improved pasture and ranching. However, most of the drilling is occurring in the Grand …

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Assessing The Economic Value Of Linear Landscapes: Learning From The Katy And Santa Fe Trails In Dallas, Texas, Dylan Michael Stewart Jul 2014

Assessing The Economic Value Of Linear Landscapes: Learning From The Katy And Santa Fe Trails In Dallas, Texas, Dylan Michael Stewart

Landscape Architecture Masters & Design Theses - Archive

This research is an economic value study for linear landscapes. Additionally, the research builds upon relevant landscape architecture literature in concern to the economic value of landscape. Specifically, the focus occurs upon a landscape typology that is relevant to today's design practice (Crompton, 2001; Brander et.al, 2011; Sherer, 2006). The research's relevancy stems from the landscape architect's ability to analyze and understand dynamic, linear landscapes as they stimulate economic activity beyond their direct footprint (see such as Vandermeulen et al., 2011; Ozdil, 2008; Tzoulas et al., 2007; de Groot et al., 2002; Quayle, 1995).The purpose of this research is to …

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