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Affect and Interaction on Atlanta's Beltline 

Everett, Stephen (2013-03-18)
This project addresses homogenous infrastructural design. The research suggests that a reevaluation of infrastructure based on a close attention to its social and physical conditions can enable new approaches to its ...

Beyond The Pit [of Democracy]: Mine Reclamation, Emergence, and Finite Resources 

Ballard, Daniel (2013-03-18)
Through the integration of democratic process with that of the reclamation of the Martin-Marietta Aggregate Quarry (MMQ), my design research proposes that it is possible to positively change contemporary understanding of ...

Blur 

Taylor, Rachel (2014-05-01)
The world is not cleanly divided into separate self-contained entities. Rather, the landscape is comprised of components that overlap, interact, and intermingle with each other, creating gradients and ecotones between ...

Brownfield Topographies: Regenerating brownfields through topological and ecological disturbance 

Smithson, Tyler (2013-03-18)
Brownfield topology is my term for the regeneration of urban brownfield sites through the disturbance of topography and site ecologies. This approach physically moves earth to generate unique arrangements of topography and ...

Changing the Channel on T.V. 

Coombes, Daniel (2011-11-30)
Changing the channel on ‘TV’ is a landscape architecture research project which interrogates the concept of terrain vague through the practises of the formless, a theory developed by Georges Bataille in the late 1920’s. ...

Conservation Design: Linking Development to the Land 

Neely, Alan Wood (2011-11-30)
Alabama contains well over 500 abandoned mines across the northern part of the state and while some mining zones continue to degrade the landscape over time, others have been reclaimed naturally and left in an ambiguous ...

The Dance: a fluid model of street design 

Szakel, Bonnie (2014-04-29)
During the early twentieth century, the American city experienced changes to its infrastructure that are still visible today. These changes were a result of the city beautiful movement. Some of the changes to the city ...

Deadland: A Cemetery Design in Columbus Georgia 

Hines, Maria (2014-05-02)
Cemeteries are sacred spaces that have the ability to evoke awareness, fear, awe, reverence, memory and other high emotions that transcend the spatial. When one thinks about a cemetery, it is often a mystifying space ...

Design Open Systems: How Can Middle Branch Harbor in Baltimore be Designed as an Open System? 

Deng, Qian (2013-03-22)
This thesis researches the potential of an open systems approach to the design of urban coastlines. Open systems are created and informed by the matter- energy that continually flows through them. A crucial feature is their ...

Designing a Landscape Based on Childhood Play 

Phillips, Alina (2011-11-30)
Children have the right to play. Throughout history we have recordings of children playing in all cultures. PLAY is a basic need along with nutrition, health, shelter and education. It is vital to the development of all ...

Eating the Landscape You Live In: How Can Contemporary Communities Be Incorporated into the Agricultural Landscape? 

Michael, Julie (2011-11-30)
This thesis explores the idea of creating settlements that function aesthetically, as well as economically, by designing and incorporating human living conditions into productive agrarian landscapes. The project designs a ...

Emergent Design in Landscape Architecture: The Application of the Theory of Emergence to the Craft of Creating Public Urban Spaces 

Biesecker, Matthew (2011-11-30)
As scientific philosophies and theories have evolved, so has their application to the craft of landscape architecture. The theory of emergence, which was developed in the 1970s, is currently finding applications in the ...

Entering the Interspace 

Sharp, Adrian (2013-03-22)
This thesis document explores the relationships between topography, transportation infrastructure, and the experiential self within the urban context of Atlanta Georgia. The site undergoing exploration exists at the ...

Immersive Constructed Wetlands 

Benton, Rodney (2014-05-02)
Urban stormwater runoff has historically been managed through engineered systems designed to move stormwater out of the urban environment and into the outlying stream and river systems. This had a negative impact on ...

Landscape Disturbance: Using Initial Conditions to Establish Urban Terrain as an Ongoing Negotiation 

Lamberth, Josh (2011-11-30)
Rethinking the traditional urban design function of a master plan has become increasingly important in recent years. Not only is there now a recognized need to design in order to accommodate change over time, but there is ...

Neighborhood regeneration - Through New Patterns of Urban Public Space 

Ran, Ran (2013-03-18)
Like many other decayed downtown areas in the U.S, the one in Montgomery, AL has a pedestrian framework which was provided for walking at the beginning of its settlement. However, most of the downtown neighborhood streets ...

Productive Public Space: Wetland Waterfront Reconnecting to the City in Mobile, AL 

Bi, Wenrui (2011-11-30)
Mobile is a port city on the Gulf of Mexico, and is the oldest city in the State of Alabama as well. The convenient location and land-river transportation link gave the city great strategic importance, which fostered it ...

Redefining Productivity: How can a productive landscape be redefined for social change? 

Shell, Phillip (2013-03-18)
The landscape has always been expected to produce something, whether it be a crop, a mineral, a view, a resting place, or even an opportunity. In the small town of Loachapoka, Alabama, (pop. 162) the residents have become ...

Remediation in Urban Ecology: How Remediative Park Design in Montgomery, AL can influence its Future Development 

Pasley, Justin (2013-03-18)
This design research project explores the possibility of connection between the riverfront and the downtown of Montgomery, Alabama by means of a remediative park system that encourages movement through the city. Currently ...

Sensorial Ecology: The Hapticity of Site 

Lee, Kelly Danielle (2011-11-30)
This project intends to expose the intense rapport between self and the environment via the experiential nature of the haptic realm. The theoretical objective behind the research, and its accompanying explorations, explores ...