GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH
Search or browse through research completed by MLA graduates at the University of Manitoba. Our goal is to create a collective research database for all Landscape Architecture programs across Canada.
Livable streetscape : creating a pedestrian network in the Town of Morden, Manitoba
Tariq, Mohammed Mesbahul
2008
Dependence on the automobile, environmental pollution and sedentary lifestyles all seriously impair the quality of our life and surrounding environment. There is a growing interest to create enhanced livable pedestrian environment as a way of reclaiming urban vitality. ln recent years, we have witnessed a number of initiatives in urban areas throug . . .
Tangible and affective landscape desires : the suburban yard
Legge, Ian
2008
This study explores the landscape desires of fourteen suburban area case-study subjects residing in new and old neighbourhoods. In particular this study highlights physical and social catalysts that influence the landscape desires of the suburban homeowner. Two types of desires are identified as being present: those which are tangible, or amenity d . . .
Project X : integrating an elevated LRT structure in Manila's urban streetscape
Yambot, Louella Pleasant
2008
The occupation of an elevated LRT structure in Manila's urban streetscape affect the activities, uses, and functions of the street, and create a blight impression of the streetscape and surrounding neighborhood. There are opportunities to integrate an elevated LRT structure in the area as a way of improving the condition and impression of the stree . . .
Foothills Country Hospice : design inquiry
Unger, Kimberly D.
2008
As a graduate student undertaking a degree in Landscape Architecture, the author required a research methodology that accommodated the multidisciplinary nature of landscape architectural practice in her research process. Employing a postmodern qualitative research design, this project strives to suspend our avoidance of the realities of death and d . . .
Full bloom
Scott, Alison Leslie
2008
Full bloom is Oz to Dorothy's Kansas. It describes richness, ripeness, exuberance, life; a state of being that is inextricably bound to context, to the landscape it describes. And on the southern Saskatchewan prairie, this implies contrast. In a palette of greys, browns, an azure sky, it is lushness, it is petunia pink and spring grass green; in a . . .
692 Main Street : a revisioning of an urban void : an exploration into challenging cultural perceptions of an urban vacant lot
Little, Gregory M.
2008
This practicum delves into the challenges of vacant lots in our urban centers, particularly the issues of cultural perception, meaning and value. Vacant lots are part of the urban cycle of growth and decay; they are common occurrence within our urban centers and yet their existence within the urban everyday tends to be ovelooked, even avoided. Alth . . .