For over half a century the flat roof has been the predominate roof form for urban architecture. Today, as urban densities continue to climb, as the amount of green urban open space declines, and as realty prices soar, the need to develop our rooftop landscape or roofscape has reached a critical point. AIso, as more and more people are living and w . . .

Design of man made lakes is a complex interdisciplinary task requiring knowledge in various scientific fields. Although there are many manuscripts dealing with such disciplines as engineering, biology, limnology, hydrology, this practicum shows the importance of landscape architecture in design process of lake communities. With the increasing inter . . .

Traditional Chinese architecture often echoes the themes of gardens and the contemplative life. Subjects in classical poetry and paintings are often used to further enrich the artistic tradition of Chinese design techniques, and bring alive the classical antiquity of Chinese landscape architecture. Chinese gardens, as well as their principal struct . . .

Traditional planning and design approaches have relied upon a limited vocabulary of solutions to urban redevelopment issues and, as such, have perpetuated a sameness in urban fabric to the exclusion of nature and natural processes and the realities of regional biophysical context. The integration of nature and natural processes within an urban situ . . .

The modern day City of Winnipeg is situated on the poorly drained floor of pro-glacial Lake Agassiz, one of the flattest regions on earth. Within the area now bounded by the Perimeter Highway sixteen major streams and at least twenty small coulees once emptied into the Àssiniboine and Red Rivers. Behind the levees of these rivers large areas of mar . . .

This practicum examines how people in post World War II urban neighbourhood environments interact with the designed/built environment. Three Winnipeg neighbourhood environments were examined using an attribute descriptor package for design developed for this study. This was coupled with observations of human behaviour and interaction at key activit . . .