• Elegance in participatory design: Enabling design culture in landscape architecture 

  Hoddinott, Wendy R. (Lincoln University, 2018)

  The quality of public space is vital to livable cities. Yet livable cities also require empowered communities. This thesis asks: how is the landscape architect’s design expertise expressed as part of the public participation ...

• Major Cycle Routes in Christchurch: Conflicts in Local Situations and Proposed Design-based Solutions 

  Di, Wang (Lincoln University, 2018-02-28)

  The Christchurch City Council is currently developing a network of 13 major cycle routes, which link residential neighbourhoods, businesses, parks, schools and popular recreational destinations across Christchurch. As of ...

• Nation, city, place: Rethinking nationalism 

  Egoz, Yael S. (Landscape Review, 2007)

  In the past two decades academic interest in, and discussion of, identity and place mainly arose in the context of globalisation, its drive to homogenise culture and the role architecture may play in resisting the negative ...

• Landscape assessment in New Zealand: Background and current issues 

  Swaffield, Simon R. (Lincoln University, 1999)

  One result of the growth in environmental awareness in the latter half of the twentieth century has been the recognition in New Zealand legislation of a public interest in landscape. The focus of environmental and landscape ...

• Urban comfort in a future compact city: Analysis of open-space qualities in the rebuilt Christchurch central city 

  Tavares, Silvia; Swaffield, Simon R. (Lincoln University, 2017-12-07)

  The increase in urban population has required cities to rethink their strategies for minimising greenhouse gas impacts and adapting to climate change. While urban design and planning policy have been guided by principles ...

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