MLA Theses

As a requirement for the Master of Landscape Architecture degree, each MLA student must pursue, under the supervision of an advisory committee, an in-depth work that is of relevance to the field of landscape architecture. Upon completion, the student must present his or her work to the faculty and other students to demonstrate the project themes and synthesis of ideas.

The Graduate College maintains the entire collection of graduate theses on their Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) website.

Click here to access the IDEALS website to search for a past MLA thesis


2011 Thesis Colloquium Schedule


2010 Theses

Mujing Niu, "Naming the Discipline: A Comparison of Three Landscape Architecture Programs in Beijing, China"
Rhonda Castillo, "Claiborne Avenue: A Cultural Palimpsest"
Trisha Hurst, "Creating Healthier Metropolitan Ecosystems: Honey Bee Habitat as a Guideline for Change"
Manasi Mhasawade, "Remediation and Reuse of a Former Manufactured Gas Plant Site in Champaign, IL"
Shanshan Lu, "The Past, Contemporary and Future Utility of Beijing Courtyards"
Xucan Zhou, "A Study of Outdoor Environments for Young Children: Re-envisioning the Child Development Laboratories at UIUC"
Yuan Lv, "Redesigning Main Street in Post-industrial Communities: The Case of Galesburg, Illinois"
Prerna Jain, "Regeneration of the Cuyahoga Riverfront in Cleveland, Ohio"
Xinxin Chai, "Redesign of a Demolished Neighborhood: Creating Healthy, Safe, and Sociable Cabrini Green"
Qian Gao, "Heping District, Tianjin, China: Conservation of a Cultural Landscape"

2009 Theses

Ann Merritt, "Museum Sculpture Gardens: Responding to the Expanding Field of Site-Specific Art"
Bethany Harre, "Reenvisioning the Residential Street Scene: Translating the Woonerf - The Case in Champaign"
David St. Onge, "Reprogramming Pittsburgh's Post Industrial Riverfront: An Open Space Vision for the South Side"
Katie Linnemann, "Zero Runoff Campus: Parkland Community College - Economic, Ecological, and Educational Implications"
Lori Tella, "Designing for Ecology: A Case Study of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois"
Michael Garrett, "Design Investigations of the Lake Calumet Complex: Improving Water Quality to Regenerate Local, Industrial, Community, and Ecosystem Resources"
Mengfei Jiang, "Green Infrastructure: Designing to Solve Beijing's Environmental Problems"
Aaron Petri, "A Participatory Process for Evaluating Sustainable Agriculture at the Dudley Smith Farm"
Christy Wallace, "Protecting and Interpreting Remnant Cemetary Prairies and Savannahs - The Historic Ottawa Trail Between Danville and Paxton, IL"
Timothy Marten, "Towards Sustainable Agriculture: The Dudley Smith Farm Revision"
Chak-Yin Shing, "An Exploration of Meaning in Landscape Architecture: Redesigning Tsim Sha Tsui East Waterfront in Hong Kong"
Rebecca Gollnick, "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"
Lobsang Chodon "Uttarakhand Crafts Village, Dehradun, India"

2008 Theses

Harsh Goel, "The Urban and Resident Landscapes in the Heritage Corridor of River Yamuna, Agra, India"
Julie Sajtar, "The Bloomingdale Line: Emptiness and the Slow Horizon"
Jay LeChien, "The Mounds Heritage Trail"
Shaney Pena Gomez, "Landscapes of Indeterminacy: Remappling Bahlla De Las Aguilas"
Ellen R. Hartman, "Savior City"
Dan Archibald, "Preserving the Garden Heritage of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Nauvoo, Illinois"

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