Browsing Landscape Architecture Dissertations and Theses by Title
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Unfamiliar terrain: From the paradox of intervention to paradoxical intervention
(2011)Landscape architects are attempting to become complicit or knowingly involved with the nonhuman and human processes which determine the formation of landscape. Because these processes are understood as being indeterminate, ... -
Urban ecology and the design of a green infrastructure network based on catchments for urban Auckland, New Zealand : the Oakley Creek Catchment case study
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTIONS: Main question: How can a catchment-based green infrastructure network better achieve low-impact storm water attenuation goals for urban and community development in Auckland in the context of climate ... -
The urban edge : an integrative approach towards a sustainable and resilient waterfront
(2016)The human manipulation of landscape and environment has remained a prominent area of urban and environmental discourse over the past century. Contemporary urban waterfronts reflect and constitute changes in urban ecology, ... -
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 ... -
Urban retrofitting
(2016)The global population is projected to rise to 9.6 billion people by 2050, with upward of 60% expected to move into urban areas (Alberti, 2005). Economic geography further suggests that the pressure to expand and availability ... -
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, ... -
Volcanic urbanism : an investigation into the role of public open spaces as disaster relief areas in order to make a city more resilient.
(2015)This research project explores ways to utilise public open spaces to be part of resilient framework in Auckland in the event of a volcanic eruption and the likely subsequent secondary disasters (such as earthquakes and ... -
Wastewater for resilient 21st century cities
(2015)Retrofitting cities with decentralised wastewater infrastructure. Combined waste and storm water infrastructure causes water pollution in urban streams. The project explores how to retool the existing 19th century ...
