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.
Managing Beaudry Provincial Park's riverbottom forest, research, restoration and maintenance strategies
Reilly, Robin
2000-10-01
Beaudry Provincial Park, in southern Manitoba, features tall grass prairie, oak savannah and riverbottom forest communities. The Assiniboine River has carved three peninsulas which form the core of the hardwood forest and its associated shrub and herbaceous community. The forest was historically impacted by logging, farming and cottaging. Since the . . .
South Red River access study, search for a river spirit
McKim, Kenneth J.
2000-10-01
This practicum addresses the current lack of opportunities within Winnipeg for residents to safely and easily travel from their neighborhoods, to the riverbank, river's edge and even onto the river surface if they so choose. The study focuses on the south end of the city, along the Red River, in exploring the notion of developing the existing inven . . .
The Winnipeg International Airport secure zone, an alternate landscape plan study
Stoyko, David Lawrence
2000-08-29
This study examines an alternate landscape for the grounds of the secure zone at the Winnipeg International Airport. The objective is to achieve two main goals: (1) Reduce the negative impacts of operations at the airport on the local environment and community. (2) esign the landscape in a way that provides interest and meaning to those viewing the . . .
Seeing the landscape, a search for hidden narratives
Simonson, Wendeth Ann
2000-08-28
At the heart of this discussion is the hypothesis that the prairie landscape hides its story from those passing through it, and that by looking at it from the air as well as from the ground, in both a measured way and in a poetic way, we can uncover the hidden and reveal the invisible, and in doing so tell the truer story. To study the legibility o . . .
Reinterpretation & interaction, the neglected urban landscape
Cheung, Wai-Tung Phyllis
2000-08-28
The neglected spaces are the spaces in between the buildings. Though they function as part of the city's infrastructure system, they are rarely included in its inventory of assets. These forgotten spaces remain as honest reflections of our urban lives, without being corrupted by popular and corporate cultures. Occupied a substantial amount of urban . . .
A holistic approach to dike design, St. Norbert Manitoba, a case study and application
Jones, Andrew M.
2000-08-01
In this century, attempts to control the Red River, and other rivers world-wide, have involved the extensive use of diking systems. Diking systems consist essentially of utilitarian structures with a single temporally-limited purpose. While they fulfill their primary purpose of keeping flood waters away from homes, businesses, and agricultural land . . .
