The landscape plant materials informational needs of planting designers were evaluated in a historical and contemporary context. It was found that plant designers need to know about the environmental and cultural adaptation, landscape value and use, and commercial availability of the plant materials that they use. Surveys of regional plant materials experts and nursery inventories were made to determine which plants should be included in a reference text. The climate of the region is also identified and compared to other parts of the country. Plant materials reference books were reviewed to see if they provided this information for plants grown in the Intermountain region. These reference books were found to be inadequate for professional landscape architectural use in the region. A proposal for a plant materials reference handbook is made and individual plants to be included are selected.

In recent years corporations, are becoming increasingly concerned with their image. This is called branding and can involve a variety of activities that shape attitudes and opinions about the company. The appearance of a company's physical environment and facilities is one factor that potentially influences the company's image. However, there is very little empirical research that explains this relationship between the built environment and its significance to a corporation's image. The objective of this study is to examine and explain the role of landscape as it contributes to corporate image. In doing so, the study investigates three corporations, analyses their landscapes and provides an understanding of the image building process by interviewing the management, employees and landscape architects of these respective corporations. It is observed that landscape can play a major role in shaping corporate image. Consequently, the results of this study suggest that corporations must consider landscape an integral part of the image building process; and landscape architects must consciously consider corporate image while designing landscapes for corporate clients. The study concludes by providing possible design prompts for image conscious corporate clients. / Master of Landscape Architecture

Industrial heritage sites are special areas in a city. In recent years, China has paid more attention to the protection and renewal of industrial heritage. Because these areas have proved to be problematic, landscape architectures should work to solve these problems for future areas. This thesis asks the question: could there be a conscious way to deal with this issue? Using the five major models and Linda Groat’s four perspectives on contextual design as the theoretical approach, this thesis conducts a comparative study on the center of Norrköping and Xu Jiahui Park in Shanghai. In order to investigate if Linda Groat’s categories could be useful to landscape architectures, this thesis analyzes the two cases and discusses to what extent they fit in with Groat’s theory. The investigation produces some results to guide landscape architects; so when facing an industrial heritage, the landscape design might be dealt with in a more conscious way. / 0735-982552

Typefaces contain explicit and implicit character in their appearance. They are valuable to the designer to convey an appropriate rhetorical voice. Typefaces can be powerful expressions for the persona of user groups and their specialized information. This interpretive exploratory study looked at design as research. Textual data was collected from several sources that revealed typeface trends. As a precedent, Helvetica and Times used on National Park plans forecasted Parks Canada’s preference for Helvetica Neue as the current display font family. The second case study revealed several recurrent typefaces used for titles and headings on Canadian Society of Landscape Architects’ professional journals. Lastly, survey data about landscape architects’ current typeface preferences showed a trend for certain styles and persistent connotations. The personality and physical characteristics of these preferences were synthesized into design guidelines and a typeface concept. This representative landscape architecture typeface is intended to promote professional salience and unity. / The continuity of this thesis will generate a digital design resulting in the release of a typeface taking approximately two years. The author will engage with professionals within landscape architecture and typography to ensure that the typeface development and assessment is holistic and fulfills the recommendations outlined by the key informant and popular literature. / Landscape Architecture Alumni Award

Landscape and related environmental works are discussed as an integral and essential aspect of most land development projects, whether they are building or civil works, environmental protection, rehabilitation or landscape beautification. Problematic contractual issues that regularly arise in landscape contracting from the use of standard forms of construction contracts for pre-main contract, in-main contract and post-main contract landscape work are identified and discussed. These forms of contracts have essentially been written for traditional building and engineering works and are shown to be inadequately addressing the unique contractual aspects relating to landscaping works. The study focuses on the issues to be addressed in a contract between an employer and a landscape contractor for work to be undertaken before the main construction contractor has been appointed and on landscape subcontract work undertaken during the construction under the main contract. It addresses the problems surrounding the contractual practical termination of the landscape subcontract, the defects liability period and interim landscape maintenance as well as landscape maintenance work after the landscape installation has reached final completion. The study points towards an appropriate form of contract for use in conjunction with the JBCC contract system to provide for the particular requirements of landscape contracting. It indicates the necessary compatibility between landscape subcontractual requirements and the JBCC Nominated/Selected Subcontract Agreement. This required compatibility warrants a revision of or an addendum to the JBCC document. The requirements for a landscape maintenance contract, for use after termination of the landscape installation (sub)contract, are shown to be sufficiently different from the installation contract to warrant changes or addenda to the standard construction contract form. From a review of literature on the landscape contractual environment in South Africa and a study of contracts commonly used in South Africa, pertinent landscape contractual issues are identified for the three phases in which landscape and related environmental works are performed, i.e. before the main construction contract, during the main construction contract and during the landscape maintenance period after completion of the main contract. These issues are formalised and tested for validity and relevance by means of a survey conducted amongst developers and owners of building and engineering works, contractors and professional consultants. The research is summarised, findings and conclusions for each of the three landscape works phases are presented and recommendations made to address the confirmed contractual problematic issues. The survey confirms the JBCC suite of contracts as the most widely used for landscaping contracts in South Africa and the recommendations therefore focus thereon. The study concludes with a proposal for an addendum to the JBCC’s Nominated/Selected Subcontract Agreement entitled “General and specific conditions of subcontract for landscape and related works” and recommendations for further study of related issues identified in the survey but which fall outside the focus of this study. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Architecture / unrestricted

Les territoires et les paysages littoraux sont soumis à des risques naturels de mieux en mieux identifiés et croissants (tempêtes, submersions…), notamment sous les effets du changement climatique, dont les manifestations, pas seulement eustatiques, auront d’autres conséquences sur les paysages. Comment, dans une logique proactive, tirer parti des modifications de paysages tout en limitant, contrôlant, voire corrigeant les dérives induites par la hausse du niveau marin sur les littoraux ? L’objectif est de montrer qu’il est possible de s’ajuster à ces risques par la prise en compte des paysages et par la pratique d’une gestion plus douce et raisonnée des aménagements côtiers. Après avoir établi un bilan argumenté sur la prise en compte du paysage dans les stratégies aujourd’hui mises en œuvre pour réduire les risques d’inondation et de submersion, la thèse évalue comment le projet de paysage, processus holistique de conception et de partage de visions à long terme, peut-il être un outil de réduction de la vulnérabilité du territoire et de sa société. Puis, la thèse se focalise sur la Camargue, territoire deltaïque emblématique dont les processus naturels et sociaux ont permis d’inventer une société et des paysages créateurs de richesses dans un équilibre dynamique face aux risques permanents d’inondation et de submersion. Cependant, avec, entre autres causes, celle du changement climatique, cet équilibre stratégique est remis en question et nécessite d’élaborer les hypothèses d’une autre Camargue. Ainsi, dans une dimension exploratoire, la thèse propose une illustration argumentée de nouveaux modèles de développement et d’ajustement du système camarguais. La double prise en compte du paysage et du changement climatique et les premiers résultats de l’étude de dépoldérisation des Bas-Champs Picards, nous amènent à revendiquer la mise en œuvre d’une politique de renouvellement littoral en tant que réponse aux problèmes des territoires côtiers d’aujourd’hui et plus encore de demain. / Coastal territories and landscapes are submitted to increasing yet better identified natural risks (storms, flooding, etc.), especially under the effects of climate change. Its reflections, the eustatic ones among others, have various consequences on the landscape. How is it possible, in a proactive reasoning, to take advantage of the lanscape alterations at the same time as limitating, controling and why not correcting the excesses due to the sea level rise on the coasts ? The aim is to show that it is possible to adjust to these risks upon taking landscapes into account and managing the coastal structures a lighter and better thought-out way.An argued assessment on the way the landscape is taken into account in current strategies used to reduce the flooding risks, is followed with an evaluation of the way the landscape project, a holistic process of designing and sharing long term visions, can be used as a tool to reduce the vulnerability of both the territory and its society. Then, the thesis focuses on the emblematic Camargue delta, a territory which natural and social processes allowed to develop a society together with lanscapes creators of wealth in a dynamic balance considering the permanent flooding risks. However, keeping in mind, among other causes, that of climate change, this strategic balance is being questioned and needs the elaboration of hypotheses for another form of Camargue. Thus, in an exploratory dimension, the thesis suggests an argued illustration of new models of development and adjustment for the system of Camargue. Taking into account both the landscape and climate change, the first results of a study on managed realignment in Bas-Champs, Picardie, lead us to a demand for the implementation of a coastal regeneration policy as the answer to the issues of coastal terriories for today, and even more for tomorrow.