Browsing Landscape Architecture Conference Papers by Title
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Landscape systems modelling: A disturbance ecology approach
(ICE Publishing, 2007)This paper reports on research which explores the modelling of landscape systems over time using multiagent simulation (MAS) software called NetLogo. Two case studies investigate a disturbance ecology approach to the ... -
Managed retreat: Climate change and the polycentric urban region
(2022-10-12)The things that made Tāmaki Makaurau so desirable to Māori and Pākehā now make the city vulnerable to the effects of climate change; sea-level rise and flooding. Let’s think about how we as LAs engage with a potentially ... -
Online Plant Databases
(2011)Landscape architects have a prominent role in designing and specifying plantscapes across a wide range of project scales, from gardens to urban streetscapes and parks to large-scale conservation revegetation. Both scientific ... -
Parametric Models of Coastal Settlements' Growth
(International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA ), 2013)Parametric design has been widely used by architects. However within landscape architecture and urban design its use has been very limited (Steino, 2012). This paper reports on initial findings of on-going research that ... -
Preserving a green space network for a regional Auckland
(2015-11)As the largest urban region of New Zealand, Auckland is well known for its unique lifestyle with a clean, green environment. However, rapid urban growth and horizontal urban sprawl is threatening the very lifestyle that ... -
Reflections on a student research-led design project involving children, climate change and landscape architecture
(2012)This paper is centred on knowledge building within research and design as a layered and collaborative approach. It develops a small case study of the learning journey of an undergraduate landscape architecture student ... -
Resilient Sprawl: An Alternative Auckland Plan
(University of Western Sydney, Sydney, 2013-03)In 2011, Auckland consolidated its seven councils into a single governing entity – the Auckland Council. Effectively, four cities and three rural districts were meshed into one city-region, with million and a half ... -
The resilient waterfront
(2018-04-13)Changes in forest cover Grove Park detention basin Height and FAR (Floor area ratio) -
Revealing the cryptic
(International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA ), 2013)Invertebrate numbers worldwide are declining, predominantly due a lack of knowledge and detrimental activities on habitat such as urban expansion. "Invertebrates ore essential to our natural environment and to humans,"(Department ... -
'Same, same, but different' : a comparison of rationales between historic and contemporary school garden development
(International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), 2015-06)School gardening projects are on the rise and as the current school garden movement reaches into its third decade, this is an opportune time to consider the involvement of Landscape Architects (LAs). As design specialists ... -
Status and implementation of integrated green-grey infrastructure in residential street retrofitting
(2022-12-02)Since the early 20th century, residential streets in low-density suburban neighbourhoods in developed countries have been designed as car-oriented, wide, paved spaces. These conventionally designed streets have increasingly ... -
Storm water management and improvement case of Freemans Bay Auckland
(2015-06)Freemans Bay is a vast and recovered industrial zone, encompassed by a petrol chemical storage facility and a tank farm. Major storm water outfall from the surrounding Freemans Bay catchment can cause contamination in the ... -
Swarm planning : development of generative spatial planning tool for resilient cities
(eCAADe (Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe), 2015-09)In dealing with unexpected impacts of climate change current spatial planning tools are irresponsive and inflexible. The outcomes of applications of these tools are very limited in number, producing static plans that if ... -
The tempered edge : waterfront development in an age of climate change
(2014-06)The development of the contemporary waterfront is an extremely successful and lucrative model of urban growth however the development process often elides serious environmental problems such as the discharge of highly ... -
The tempered edge : waterfront development in an age of climate change.
(Finland Futures Research Centre, 2014-06)Urban waterfront development has followed the Baltimore waterfront model since the 1970s. This model is characterised by the formation of a thin promenade of public space with carefully choreo- graphed event architecture, ... -
Therapy in translation : landscape Ideas from the Whau Lunatic Asylum and Unitec Campus.
(SAHANZ and Unitec ePress, 2014-08-07)As noted by Julian Raxworthy,1 landscape architecture is different from other design discourses, notably architecture, because of its utilisation of ‘dynamic’ construction media such as plant materials, soils and water, ... -
Under the Mountain - how a volcanic peak has influenced the culture, ecology and landscape history of Taranaki, New Zealand
(International Federation of Landscape Architects Asia Pacific (IFLA - Asia Pacific), 2015-09-07)Mount Taranaki/Egmont occupies a central place in the history and culture of Taranaki people – Maori and European. The mystical qualities of the volcanic mountain have influenced the culture, ecology and landscape history ... -
Unitec Arboretum
(2012)Greening of cities has become a significant motivation for landscape architects, urban designers, and architects, as well as a growing public expectation. While there is need for the development of new technologies to ... -
Unitec campus history : notions of therapy
(2015-03)One of the great things about working in one place for a long time is that you really get to observe it in detail, in all the seasons and over the years and you get opportunities to soak up the character of the place. ... -
Utilising agent based models for simulating landscape dynamics
(Cumulus, 2009)Cities and landscapes are now understood as systems that are open, chaotic, unpredictable, irreversible, and in constant flux - i.e. complex adaptive systems. This is why designers need to develop new modes of practice ...