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The Landscape Performance Series Scholarly Works are a searchable collection of top student theses and dissertations related to landscape performance. Full papers are available for download in pdf format.
The student research presented here includes research on the benefits of landscape, post occupancy evaluations or analyses of monitoring data, and applications of existing research for existing or proposed projects.
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Zero Runoff Campus
Katie Anne Linnemann
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Landscape Architecture
2009Engineers in the 20th century faced the challenge of efficiently managing stormwater in the urban context. They became so efficient at catching and redirecting the runoff, that they inadvertently caused many other problems, such as increased flood frequencies and decreased water infiltration. The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate a shift from the model of the 20th century to a more progressive model for the 21st century. This thesis will address the problem by redesigning the rainwater management system at Parkland Community College in Champaign, Illinois as a retrofit. An economic and ecological analysis of the design has been completed and compared to a traditional design to demonstrate the benefits associated with sustainable design and to encourage other such explorations by landscape architects.
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r grossman said:
Interested in seeing the result.
gunjan said:
would like to know about this in detail!!!