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Landscape design guidelines for container terminals
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1986)
The evolved landscape setting of a container terminal can be perceived as an extensive warehouse from which the roof has been removed. Such a landscape setting is the product of the consumer age in which we live and is ...
Waterfronts: a landscape of opportunity
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1985)
This study of the landscape of port waterfronts is appropriate because, after the culmination of perhaps several hundred years of growth, the quality of the landscape in these areas now needs to be redeveloped and upgraded. ...
Interpreting landscapes for children
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1989)
When I was a child our family used to take an annual holiday every May. For a week we would tour the South Island, one year exploring the top of the South Island, the next the West Coast, while another, the Southern Lakes ...
Landscape values in the New Zealand education system
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1983)
The main function of this paper is as a pilot study. It suggests potential areas of activity and profitable avenues to investigate within the
Education System. As the professions of
landscape architecture and teaching ...
Urban open-space
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1981)
In recent times there have been a variety of approaches to the designation and design of urban open-space. The major concepts involved are those of the nineteenth century American Romantic Suburb; the Company Towns; the ...
Akaroa
(University of Canterbury, 1981)
The township of Akaroa is located on the eastern shores of Akaroa harbour which forms part of Banks Peninsula, a little over 8 kilometres from the headlands and almost 7 kilometres from the head of the harbour. It is reached ...
Franz Josef, township of Waiho Gorge : an alternative extension proposal
(University of Canterbury, 1977)
This study attempts to draw attention to landscape characteristics important in development, and specific to the Franz Josef region. The landscape study involves a survey of the existing village with regard to its regional ...
The landscape and recreational value of pine trees and production forests: A case study of Ferry Road Pine Plantation
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1978)
The forestry industry in New Zealand is well entrenched in the traditions of production economics, practicalities and progress and yet, at the same time, it occupies a very large proportion of the country's land which is ...
A coastal recreation study of Wainui Valley, Banks Peninsula
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1978)
Wainui Valley, which is located on the shores of Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula, is a popular holiday home settlement. It is reached by travelling along State Highway 75 to Akaroa and turning off at Barry's Bay. An ...
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 ...