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The Avon River : a recreation reserve for Christchurch
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1984)
The Avon River is Christchurch’s central landscape feature. Water is potentially exciting, refreshing and organic and can meet many human psychological needs in the synthetic city. As a natural feature in a landscape largely ...
Okowai : a study in hillside residential development
(University of Canterbury, 1977)
A residential area is home for most people. It is also a social unit of individual and community. Residential environments are what most people, for a large part of their lives, see, experience and live. It is a refuge ...
Home and independence: the landscape design of grouped housing for the elderly
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1986)
The home and immediate locality increasingly become the focus of every-day living in later life. As such, the home environment has a strong effect upon the functional, social and psychological well-being of elderly people. ...
The Avon Loop
(University of Canterbury, 1980)
This study looks at environmental improvement in respect to a specific area of residential housing, the Avon Loop. As part of the attempt to achieve a more holistic approach, not only the physical factors are studied but ...
The Kelburn connection
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1978)
The city is an active organism that needs to link the past with the present. The city must have functional order and must cater for the needs of those who live in it. But the city must also preserve some continuity in time. ...
Perception of the environment
(Lincoln University, 1981)
Perception is inherent to our existence. Just as the word environment implies mutuality between the organism and its surroundings, it is perceive which allows the organism – whether it be a fish or a human being - to ...
Golf course design
(University of Canterbury, 1979)
Fulfilling the intended objectives
of developing a design
proposal for an 18 hole championship
golf course, involves
several stages of investigation.
It is intended, firstly, to
research the physical requirements
and ...
Design guidelines for the landscape of airports
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1986)
Air transport is a service industry catering for people
and therefore an analysis of the needs of travellers,
visitors and workers associated with the facility is
paramount in the design process of an airport. This ...
Wetlands in the agricultural landscape
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1983)
Wetlands are rapidly becoming some of New Zealand's rarest ecosystems.
The loss of the major proportion of the wetland resource existing in New Zealand at the time of European settlement has occurred mainly through ...
Canterbury mountain landscape and ski field development : a landscape management study
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1979)
The Canterbury Mountainland is an important regional resource. Its value is not due to is productive capabilities but its aesthetic and ecological qualities contained within.
The mountain environment offers a diverse ...