Landscape Architecture Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
School ground greening : developing a model for comprehensive design with multiple benefits
(2017)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the value of SGG projects be increased for all stakeholders and their communities through a co-design process? It is proposed that school ground greening has the potential to enhance children’s ... -
The bioregional park : commemorating the visit of Captain Cook
(2018)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can mapping a bioregion and its ecological connections be used as a driver for landscape architecture: conservation, and public space strategies? SUBQUESTIONS: How can tourism/recreation and ... -
How can landscape strategy make the unavailable coastal areas that are influenced by motorways more accessible?
(2018)Globally, there are more than 3.5 billion people living close to the coast, or within about 100 kilometres of it, which means this huge population relies heavily on the coastal and marine environment. The value and importance ... -
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, ...
