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50 Best Thesis Topics for Landscape Architecture

Landscape architecture is a multi-disciplinary field that focuses on the design, planning, and management of the built and natural environments. Landscape architects work to create functional and aesthetically pleasing outdoor spaces that are sustainable and improve the quality of life for people. This field encompasses a wide range of projects,

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Pocket Parks in Concrete Jungles

Idea behind Pocket Parks Cities are growing at an alarming rate, especially in major metropolitan areas. Today’s world has created a stereotypical lifestyle that doesn’t consider the need to rest and resume. The machines that we humans have become are a product of the manufactured development that’s being engaged presently.

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Rejuvenating Public Spaces with Landscape Design

Landscape Design Landscape architecture is increasingly becoming an important discipline in the planning and design of many major cities around the world. To put it simply, landscape architecture involves the design and planning of outdoor areas. A good landscape design can provide social, environmental and aesthetic benefits to its users,

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walkability
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Walkability as a Sustainable Approach in Asian Cities

What is the concept of Walkability? With the accelerating globalization and modernization of the cities, the idea of walkability was almost considered a utopian concept. The rapid increase in the urban sprawl of emerging cities made motorized transport the most convenient and appreciated mode of transit. The cities became more

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urban design career
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Career Opportunities for Urban Design Graduates

Why urban design? The broad scope of urban design means that people from all backgrounds and with diverse interests will find urban design an engaging and satisfying career. Urban designers tend to come to the profession because they: Find the complexity and variety of towns and cities exciting Enjoy art

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Jane Jacob
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An Open Letter to Google re: Livable Cities | Jane Jacob

This year would be Jane Jacob’s 100th birthday, and what better to celebrate the memory of this incredible woman than walking along the very streets she helped fight to protect in New York City. This champion of everyday social life in public space and her de facto anthropological observations of

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Architecture, public infrastructure,urbanism, competition, urban design
Architecture

BUSINESS CLUB COMFANDI Arroyohondo | Collective 720

With the aim of transforming and renewing the services provided by the COMFANDI compensation fund and generating a new fresh and contemporary image of the entity, the architectural project “UMBRALES; Programmatic landscapes and articulators” as a trigger to achieve this goal.   Located in the Arroyohondo headquarters of COMFANDI between

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Urban design, public space, landscape urbanism, ecology, environment responsive design
Urban Design

Hybrid Thresholds | Saba Amini

The proposal envisions the threshold between the built urban fabric and the natural environment at the water’s edge. It focuses on the development of public space at the water’s edge, and tries to transform that space into a new interface that can be experienced as a valued and essential part

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Landscape urbanism, ecology, landscape, Cultural Landscape, regional landscape
Landscape

Engaging Development Through Critical Landscape Planning

This thesis section has for several years encouraged transdisciplinary landscape planning interventions in China’s large-scale eco-environmental programmes (生态立州). With China’s Belt and Road Initiative and increasingly diverse processes of going out (走出去), this section welcomes landscape-driven theses in transnational arenas of global environmental importance heavily influenced by Chinese development, aid

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