Browsing by Author "Homan, Kelly"

Cemeteries can offer tremendous value as a landscape that bonds us to our humanity. Yet, the once popular American cemetery has become alienated from the living. These sacred landscapes have become obscure spaces embedded ...

Landscape maintenance plays a vital role in how designed landscapes perform over time. The current approach is to suppress landscapes by repeating the same techniques through the seasons and years. The dynamic living ...

A global phenomenon, urbanization started after the Industrial Revolution. Since 1800, the world population has increased by 6 times. In that same time, urban population has increased by 60 times and the rate of urbanization ...

Natural process is fundamental to landscape architecture. Combining forces with these processes is a landscape architects greatest challenge and opportunity. A dialogue with urban wilds successional qualities is the core ...

This year The National Park Service is celebrating its 100-year anniversary. Since the creation of the first National Park America has shown its interest in preserving and protecting the nation’s cultural and natural ...

The street is one of the key spaces that people spend their time at everyday. The experiences of the street are important to enhance the quality of people’s life. There are lots of ways to build a street. With different ...

This research-by-design thesis deals with the treatment of post-industrial sites in Landscape Architecture as spaces capable of bringing an emotional experience to visitors not typically seen within the urban fabric. As ...

Urban Assemblages explores a landscape strategy for the adaptive reuse of abandoned homes throughout the West End neighborhoods of Birmingham Alabama with the goal of making these properties once again valuable to local ...