Keeping Promises: Exploring the Role of Post-Occupancy Evaluation in Landscape Architecture

• Post-occupancy evaluation

How well do constructed landscapes live up to the lofty goals established by design professionals? And how do we know? University of Oregon graduate student (and former CSI research assistant) Andrew Louw is investigating this topic for his masters thesis. He is both trying to understand the role of post-occupancy evaluation (POE) within the landscape architecture profession and exploring the use of a digital data collection method for POEs.

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Enhancing the Framework for Landscape Performance Quantification

by Yi Luo, PhD, PLA, Texas Tech University

• Landscape performance research
• Theories and frameworks

Because landscape performance is a relatively new concept, there might be gaps in its framework, metrics and methods. For my PhD dissertation research I studied the Landscape Performance Series to provide recommendations for future improvement.

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