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Design and representation in landscape architecture: imagining place
(Lincoln University, 2017-08-31)
This research explores designing through representation of place, focussing on the experiential dimensions of landscape architecture. The context for the research is two national parks, in very different geographic locations, ...
Designing experience of place for tourists: A case study of Chinese tour groups' visits to Lake Tekapo
(Lincoln University, 2018-02-27)
As China is becoming the second largest tourist market for New Zealand, there is a major opportunity for local areas to enhance the experience of Chinese visitors. Due to different cultural backgrounds, there are challenges ...
Burwood Hospital : a landscape and land use study
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1976)
The following report is the result of a study
of Burwood Hospital, Christchurch. The study concerned itself with the hospital buildings, the grounds in which they are situated, the landscape surrounding
them and (in a ...
Road and landform
(University of Canterbury, 1982)
The objectives of this dissertation are:
To establish the benefits gained from
moulding road landform. To examine environmental factors influencing individual slope design. To investigate road landform moulding techniques ...
“Thickening the Light”: designing grounded experience in Christchurch’s Eastern Frame
(Lincoln University, 2014)
This thesis explores the recent movement in landscape architecture towards phenomenological design, and investigates what possibilities could be generated through a process which places primacy on embodied experience. The ...
Planting philosophy : New Zealand planting design past and present
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1985)
Planting philosophy is seldom discussed within the New Zealand landscape profession. Most designers have their own ideas on planting, but seem reluctant to influence the approach of others. Perhaps the landscape, the people ...
Landscape guidelines for planning and design of access roading to transmission lines
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1980)
The history of electricity in New Zealand is less than a century old, starting in 1885 with a small hydrostation on the Shotover River near Queenstown. In these initial years, electric power was generated by private ...
Landscape development of industrial estates
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1983)
In recent years there has been a trend to locate factories and warehouses in suburban industrial subdivisions planned and zoned for this specific use.
These subdivisions are generally owned and established by one ...
Within reach, volume 1 : an approach to motorcamp site selection on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand : [dissertation] submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma in Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1979)
The title of this report is purposefully ambiguous and refers to the source of inspiration for a motorcamp study in a region adjacent to a major urban centre (Christchurch). It reflects a orsening transport fuel crisis ...
A design study of residential camps : this study [dissertation] is submitted in partial fulfilment toward the Diploma of Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College, University of Canterbury
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1980)
Historically the key factor for the location and the development of residential camps was the availability of cheap land; either marginal land or odd corners of productive land. Other factors may have been the donation of ...