Graduate Theses
As a culmination of master's level study and as a contribution to the field, each MLA student, under the supervision of a committee, must pursue independently and in depth a work of particular relevance for landscape architecture which will accomplish one or more of the following goals:
1. Demonstrate an innovative application of knowledge within the field
2. Analyze, critically examine, and/or empirically test ideas/theories
3. Creatively synthesize, expand and/or develop designs/theories.
Additional information and a PDF document of the thesis is available at the link to the IDEALS repository.
2012 Theses
- Broughton, Janet - Tectonic sites: structuring the landscape with textile-derived construction techniques
- Carlson, Samantha - Design for a student homestead at a land-grant university: integrating vernacular patterns, local systems, and ecological heritage (POSTER)
- Day, Miran - Design(ing) strategies for a sustainable and resilient coastal beachfront community
- Miller, Abbilyn - Determining critical factors in community-level planning of homeless service projects
- Wang, Guangyan - Guidelines for outdoors WiFi space design
2011 Theses
- Barth, Bram M. - Towards a Greater Knowledge Base - Engaging Chicago River Watershed Intelligence to Demonstrate Systemic Landscape Design Strategies (POSTER)
- Baumgartner, Susan J. - Sustainable agriculture in central Illinois: Visioning the future
- Blecha, Joseph J. - Expanding the Field: A New Prototype for Stadium Design (POSTER)
- Cole, Benjamin D. - Forging city and lake: Marquette's waterfront beyond the ore dock legacy (POSTER)
- James, Shawn C. - Stewardship gardening: multifarious meanings through community, ecology, and food (POSTER)
- Lee, CheongJong - Hybridizing old downtown Suwon City: how new urban fabric may save the past (Restricted to U of Illinois) (POSTER)
- Li, Chuo - Chinatown and Urban Redevelopment: A Spatial Narrative of Race, Identity, and Urban Politics, 1950-2000
- Peng, Lu - Sustainable Urbanism, Rising Sea Level, and Green Infrastructure: New Strategies for Central London
- Phillippe, Laurel Amber - A demonstration of riches: landscape narratives at Chatsworth (POSTER)
- Qu, Yi - Living with Alzheimer's disease: environmental design patterns for aging communities (POSTER)
- Sprague, Erich A - In plain site: scripting value in an urban terrain vague (POSTER)
- Stewart, Kevin A. - Temperature and dynamic form in contemporary hardscape environments (POSTER)
- Stout, Nathan F. - Intersections of community, traditional knowledge, and place: a park design for the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians
- Varma, Annie - Vishram ghat, Mathura, India: a conservation model for ghat restoration in India
- Wu, Shuangshuang - Peace/time landscape proposals for the Israeli and Palestinian border (POSTER)
- Wu, Xin - Productive Landscape - Revitalizing a Post-industrial District with Slow Economy
2010 Theses
- Castillo, Rhonda M. - Claiborne Avenue in the Treme: re claiming neutral ground
- Chai, Xinxin - Redesign of a demolished neighborhood: creating a healthy, safe and sociable Cabrini Green in Chicago
- Gao, Qian - The Heping District, Tianjin, China: conservation of a cultural landscape
- Hurst, Trisha - Creating Healthier Metropolitan Ecosystems: Honey Bee Habitat as a Guideline for Change
- Jain, Prerna - Regeneration of Cuyahoga Flats - [De]-Industrialized Riverfront in Cleveland, Ohio
- Lu, Shanshan - The Past, Contemporary and Future Utility of Beijing Courtyards
- Lv, Yuan - Redesigning Main Street in Post-industrial Communities: The Case of Galesburg, Illinois
- Mhasawade, Manasi B. - Remediation and reuse of a former manufactured gas plant site in Champaign, IL
- Niu, Mujing - Naming the discipline: A comparison of three landscape architecture programs in Beijing, China (Restricted to U of Illinois)
- Zhou, Xucan - A Study of Outdoor Environments for Young Children: Re-envisioning the Child Development Laboratories at UIUC
2009 Theses
- Chodon, Lobsang - Uttarakhand Crafts Village, Dehradun, India
- Gollnick, Rebecca - Containing Ground: A Proposed Master Plan for the United States Army Corps of Engineers Rivers Project Office Site on the Mississippi River Floodplain in West Alton, Missouri
- Garrett, Michael J. - Design investigation of the Lake Calumet Complex: improving water quality to regenerate local industrial, community, and ecosystem resources (Restricted to U of Illinois)
- Harre, Bethany - Re-envisioning the Residential Street Scene: Translating the Woonerf - The Case in Champaign
- Jiang, Mengfei - Green Infrastructure: Designing to Solve Beijing's Environmental Problems
- Linnemann, Katie - Zero Runoff Campus: Parkland Community College - Economic, Ecological, and Educational Implications
- Marten, Timothy - Towards Sustainable Agriculture: The Dudley Smith Farm Revision
- Merritt, Ann - Museum Sculpture Gardens: Responding to the Expanding Field of Site-Specific Art
- Petri, Aaron - A Participatory Process for Evaluating Sustainable Agriculture at the Dudley Smith Farm
- Shing, Chak-Yin - An Exploration of Meaning in Landscape Architecture: Redesigning Tsim Sha Tsui East Waterfront in Hong Kong
- St. Onge, David - Reprogramming Pittsburgh's Post Industrial Riverfront: An Open Space Vision for the South Side
- Tella, Lori - Designing for Ecology: A Case Study of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
- Wallace, Christy - The Ottawa Heritage Trail: protecting and interpreting remnant pioneer cemetery prairies from Danville to Paxton, Illinois
2008 Theses
- Archibald, Dan - Preserving the Garden Heritage of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Nauvoo, Illinois
- Goel, Harsh - The Urban and Resident Landscapes in the Heritage Corridor of River Yamuna, Agra, India
- Gomez, Shaney Pena - Landscapes of Indeterminacy: Remappling Bahlla De Las Aguilas
- Hartman, Ellen R. - Savior City
- LeChien, Jay - The Mounds Heritage Trail
- Sajtar, Julie - The Bloomingdale Line: Emptiness and the Slow Horizon
