Landscape Architecture Dissertations and Theses
Recent Submissions
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Urban flood adaptation plan
(2022)RESEARCH QUESTION How can climate change flooding be ameliorated through urban design? ABSTRACT As Aotearoa moves into the era of climate change, our urban landscapes are becoming more vulnerable to flooding. Along ... -
The fires of ambition: Te Awa Tupua 2040
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can New Zealand cities be decolonised to re-establish mana whenua ahikātanga? SUB-QUESTION: How can design based on Whanganuitanga re-establish mana whenua ahikātanga at Pākaitore? ABSTRACT: Since ... -
Safer cycling networks in Auckland
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can cycling networks become safer in Auckland? ABSTRACT: High-density cities worldwide are trying to reduce the amount of motorised transportation mode usage and use a sustainable alternative ... -
Ngā kite hauora nō Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Pourewa Gardens : blending Māori tradition and contemporary design towards a healthier future for Ngā Uri o Tūperiri
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can mātauranga Māori guide the development of a contemporary multi-purpose garden for Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei? ABSTRACT: Gardens were critical to Māori survival in Aotearoa New Zealand since their ... -
Nature’s prescription : making room for green spaces in highly dense cities to combat urban stress
(2021)Continuous urban growth and sprawling city development in the outskirts of Metro Manila means less and less areas to develop and thus the city is left with few open green spaces. Despite of being the nation’s major center ... -
Mautu i vae a vaea : weaving Fa'asamoa & landscape architecture
(2020)FESILI O LE SUESUEGA - RESEARCH QUESTION: How might Samoa utilize flooding as an opportunity to re-envision a future that embraces Fa'asamoa? (How can Apia reaffirm Samoan values to conceptualize sustainability through ... -
Designing for dementia : providing public spaces for inclusion, enjoyment and wellbeing
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can public spaces be designed to be friendly for relatively high functioning dementia sufferers? ABSTRACT: Dementia is a syndrome that generally affects people over 65 years of age. Sufferers ... -
Pūtahi a whenua : voices flowing as one
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can an enhanced tangata – whenua relationship strengthen hapū connection and identity? ABSTRACT: The connection of whānau to whenua is made through interactions of memory, story, affection and ... -
The new urban catchment : cleaning up Cox’s Creek
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTIONS Main question: How can a decentralised design system protect harbour pollution by considering the urban catchment? Sub question: How to solve Cox’s Bay harbour contamination by evolving WSD ... -
Groundwater-architecture : improving the social value of groundwater
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can architecture improve the public awareness, understanding and appreciation of groundwater? ABSTRACT: Groundwater sources are disappearing from highly populated areas around the world. Over ... -
Lookout : applying a process of design participation with children
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can an alternative participatory process be applied in the design of green spaces for children in Auckland, as it densifies? ABSTRACT: Children face many challenges in urban life today, including ... -
The urban regeneration of declining CBD periphery zones : the study of the Strand Station area in Auckland
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the declining CBD periphery zone be regenerated and promote urban development in big cities? ABSTRACT: As an increasing number of people’s agglomerate in large cities, the realm of urbanisation ... -
Open spaces in the developing city
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can open spaces in a developing city be preserved and enhanced? ABSTRACT: Open spaces in urban areas provide multiple and diverse functions such as the contribution to the preservation of ... -
The sponge city in New Zealand
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: • How can the effects of urban flooding in New Zealand be fixed by using sponge city techniques? • How to prevent flooding and reduce urban damage by using the sponge city strategy? • How can ... -
The use of green roofs and living walls to regenerate the urban eco-system and revitalize the public realm
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can green roofs and living walls be used as an integrated part of urban development to increase biodiversity and re-establish the connections between people and nature? During the last few decades, ... -
A commemorative landscape in the Christchurch Residential Red Zone
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can a post-disaster landscape commemorate the collective loss of place felt by communities after the Christchurch earthquakes? The Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES) occurred between September ... -
From the external : landscape transformation
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can external objects based on the combination of eastern and western aesthetics be utilised in landscape design by photomontage? Art and landscape architecture have a historical and close ... -
Living roofs + living urbanism
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: How could the development of a Living Roof Design Manual increase the effectiveness of living roof design? Living roofs are becoming increasingly common in cities throughout the world for their ... -
Sound landscapes : the past, the present and the possible
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can polyphonic soundscape ideals be the primary driver in the design of post-industrial environments? Sound Landscapes poses the question, how can polyphonic soundscape ideals be the main driver ... -
Bicycle revolution : a new bicycle network for Auckland - towards an elevated cycleway development in Auckland CBD
(2017)RESEARCH QUESTION: Can an independent cycle network make bicycle use a primary form of transportation, to provide sustainable mobility for Auckland? A correlation between the increasing use of fossil fuels and ...
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