In the United States, women often perceive traveling to be an inconvenient and uncomfortable
experience. This experience is the result of the disproportionate role men have historically
played in transportation system ...
While bicycling is growing in the U.S., only 1% of all trips are made by bike.
Surveys reveal that up to 60% of the U.S. population is interested in biking
as a legitimate mode of transportation, but they are concerned ...
This project explores the potential between the
ecological services of mosses and designed ceramic
substrate for creating ecologically enhanced
landscapes. Communities and environments are
negatively affected by areas ...
This project develops design strategies for landscape architects, planners, city
officials, and public space designers that improve the provision of public space
resources. Productive public landscapes that combine ...
With the closest port of call approximately 2,400 miles away, the Hawaiian Islands are one
of the most geographically isolated and food-import dependent populations in the world.
The Hawaiian Islands imports approximately ...
is project examines the potential applicability of Video Game
Engines to the representation of landscape architectural designs.
Video Game Engines present a unique and novel format for design
representation in that they ...
The United States currently faces a range crisis on it’s public lands.
Federally protected mustangs (Equus caballus) share a degraded
range with millions of grazing livestock. Mustangs’ contentious status
as an alleged ...
As a result of decades of rapid unplanned growth, urbanization in the Kathmandu Valley has been unsustainable and haphazard. Today, Kathmandu's food systems in particular are increasingly subject to the effects of a ...
Between 60% and 80% of global energy is
consumed in urban areas, and this will increase
with urbanization and population growth. We
must meet this new demand sustainably. By
2050, the Green New Deal calls for ...
Climate change, capitalism, globalism, densification of cities, and the rise of large
scale monocrop farming have created an environmental landscape of food instability and a lost
opportunity for human connection to and ...
Ecological restoration is a field that is constantly evolving as we learn more
about how much we do not know about our surroundings. This research looks at
the potential to co-create with native animals as a way to provide ...
This project engages with issues of Indigenous recognition, resurgence, and futurity at the University of Oregon through the lens of landscape design. By applying a relational approach to the design process that is grounded ...
The graphics we make influence the ways we
create and conceive of landscape. The static graphic
conventions currently preferred within landscape
architecture often fall short of capturing the intangible
characteristics ...
This urban design methodology combines two complementary theories: the Triple Bottom Line framework and Urban Acupuncture. The Triple Bottom Line (TBL) emphasizes equal consideration of social, environmental, and economic ...
A translation of the Jerusalem pilgrimage site of the
Via Dolorosa (the path followed by Christ over the
course of his Passion), the Stations of the Cross is
a vitally important practice, a frequent subject of
art and ...
In an urgent call for climate actions and a Green New Deal, policy such
as the “Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act of 2020” looks to offshore
renewable energy to aid in the goal of a clean electricity system while
also ...
Taiwan’s national plan to expand solar energy by 2025, including rooftop photovoltaics
and ground-level photovoltaics, triggered numerous public debate and land-use conflicts since Taiwan’s 2016 presidential election. In ...
Landscape architects have the potential to contribute to climate change
mitigation through natural climate solutions that sequester carbon in
ecosystems. However, landscape architects lack resources on how to design
landscapes ...
Large Wood, Long Legacy is a series of landscape installations and experiences that explores the role of large wood in different ecosystems in Western Oregon.
Memories of displacement, loss, and discrimination are oten present in designed sites. A decline in
memory and story sharing has let these memories lingering on sites, open wounds waiting to be unearthed,
discussed, and ...