This study examines bibliographical research on water quality in Winnipeg's rivers and retention ponds, methods of improving water quality in those retention ponds, and means of accommodating waterfowl that may inhabit the retention ponds. This information is used to create a design for atypical Winnipeg subdivision based around a retention pond wh . . .

Land and resource managers are faced with the difficult dilemma of finding a balance between human needs and environmental integrity. In our society, management goals are directed toward satisfying human needs for resource consumption, while attempting to do so in a sustainable manner. Measuring levels of sustainability often becomes difficult, as . . .

Today's major open spaces (urban parks) in Kampala. Uganda were designed at the beginning of the last century by two British urban planners: Prof. A. P. Simpson and Mr. E. A. Miriams. They based their design principles on British planning techniques without considerable reference to local traditional design principles. This approach did not recogni . . .

The scope of this research deals with two processes that are central to the work of landscape architecture: creativity and ecology. The work also addresses urban fragmentation, or the inability to see the urban environment as part of an encompassing whole of mutually interdependent systems. Ultimately, it is the intention of this practicum to not o . . .

This practicum presents the development of a Nature Park / Rest Area / Campground for the town of Morris and describes how to actively recover a peripheral site located on a flood plane, based equally upon the recognition of natural processes and cultural requirements. . . .

The primary objective of the study is to document and preserve the integrity of the Steinbach creeks as physical and symbolic expressions within the context of the city of Steinbach. As such, a significant area of focus will be an examination of the relationship and interplay between natural and human landscapes (i.e. the creeks and street village . . .