Research

This section of the Landscape Architecture website showcases abstracts, publications, and papers that represent the research and scholarly interests of the department's faculty.

Towards An Expanded History of Environmental Justice in America: Ellen Swallow Richards and Human Ecology

by Ellen Burke, January 2023

Link to Dialectic: https://www.dialecticjournal.org/volume-10#DialecticX_TowardsBurke

Automotive retrofits in historic city centres and their potential effects on their walkability: a comparison of San Luis Obispo, CA, USA and Bath, England, UK

Beverly Bass, December 2018

 

The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2017

Christine O'Hara: “Landscape History in the Digital World: A Case Study of 1920s Los Angeles”

Joseph Ragsdale: “Sectional Thinking: Considering Experience, Sequence and Spatial Development in the Design Process”

César Torres-Bustamante: “Digital Video and the Impact of Landscape Architecture on Public Well-being”

David Watts/Reeves: “Footsteps in Time: The Gardens of Versailles”

David Watts: “Playground as a Diagnostic Indicator of a Child’s Well-being”

 

Abstract: Revisiting Eden:  The Olmsted Brothers’ ecological plans for Los Angeles, 1914-1931

Christine O'Hara

 

Parking Retrofits within Historic City Centers and the Potential Effects on Their Walkability

Beverly Bass, June 2017 

 

Abstract: ABC of Landscape Architecture

César Torres-Bustamante, 2016

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2016

Ellen Burke: "Abstract: Iterative Mappings: Spatial Analysis and Community Food Resilience"

Beverly Bass: "The Role of the Creative Class in Small Town Regeneration: A Case Study of Kinston, NC"

Miran Jung Day and David Kovacic: "Abstract: A strategy for locating constructed wetlands as part of a watershed management plan"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2015

César Torres-Bustamante: "Abstract: Writing and Designing" and "Beyond Project Description: Writing in Design Studios"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2015

David J. Watts: "Examining Long Term Impacts of Short Term Service Learning Environment"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2015

Beverly J. Bass and Margaret Livingston: "Parking Retrofits within Historic City Centers and the Potential Effects on Their Walkability"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2014

César Torres Bustamante and David J. Watts: "Site Visits in the Digital Era... Are They a Necessity?"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2014

David J. Watts: "Service Learning Partnerships with Private Practice"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2014

Gary Clay: "A Landscape in Transition: The Reinvention of the Presidio in San Francisco"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2014

César Torres Bustamante: "How to Sketch (more)"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2014

Beverly J. Bass and Margaret Livingston: "Retrofitting Historic City Centers and the Potential Effects on Their Walkability: A Comparison of San Luis Obispo, CA and Bath, England"

 

Abstract: California Higher Education Sustainability Conference 2013

Beverly Bass: "Sustainable Campus Initiatives as a Product of Interdisciplinary Teaching"

 

Abstract: Making Cities Liveable Conference 2013

Margarita Hill: "Sustainable Community Design Strategies in the USA"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2013

Omar Faruque: "Lessons from Five Service-Learning Projects"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2013

César Torres Bustamante: "Representing Time and Space: DIY Investigations"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2013

David J. Watts: "Enhance Health of Pre-School Children through Prolonged Engagement on Playgrounds"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2013

Christine O'Hara and Kristopher Holz: "The Price of Comfort: A Cost-Benefit Analysis and Case Study of How Landscape and Architectural Design Can Reduce Human Dependence on Climate Control" 

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2012

Beverly Bass: "Medieval Town Making and Sustainability: A Return to the Center"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2012

Christine O'Hara: "Re-Situating Landscape Architecture for the 21st Century: How Economic Downturns have Provided Opportunities for Landscape Architecture to Find New Direction"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2012

David J. Watts: "Construction Documents: A Crossroads of Misunderstanding"

 

Abstract: Erasing Boundaries: Service Learning in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning Symposium 2011

Astrid Reeves: "Farms to Schools: Healthier Communities through Service Learning"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2011

Christine O'Hara: "From Rose Gardens to Watersheds: A Survey of Ecological Designs by the Olmsted Brothers in Southern California"

 

Abstract: The Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2011

Beverly Bass: "Gathering Spaces: Lessons from Traditional Dutch Street Form in the Age of Peak Oil and Global Warming"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2010

David J. Watts: "Service Learning in Africa"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2010

Christine O'Hara: "Teaching Scenarios of New Normals: Grounding Innovative Landscape Architectural Design in Futures Studies"

 

Abstract: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2010

Professor Emeritus Walter Bremer, Joseph Ragsdale, Beverly Bass, Christine O'Hara, and David J. Watts: "

Abstract: Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians

Christine O'Hara: "The Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915: the Olmsted Brothers’ Ecological Approach to Developing a New Park Typology for the Arid West"

 

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