Beyond City Beautiful: Interpreting Cultural Landscapes at the International Rose Test Garden and Laurelhurst Park in Portland, Oregon
| dc.contributor.author | Tran, Lindsay | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-07T00:27:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-07T00:27:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-06 | |
| dc.description | 164 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Historical interpretation (alternately referred to in this research as “heritage interpretation and “public interpretation”) often limits the narratives that are highlighted for public consumption in places of historical importance. I argue via discussion of cultural landscape theory and material rhetoric (the idea that discourse is material, i.e. that beyond content, the format of a piece of communication carries a rhetorical power of its own) that such limitations are a choice, not an inevitability—especially with cultural landscapes, which thanks to their relationship with time are historic resources of a particularly dynamic character. Treating public parks as cultural landscapes that evolve over time, rather than as historic sites wedded to a discrete period of significance, allows for a more flexible interpretation of their historical meaning. When parks are treated as cultural landscapes, their significance to many people and many groups throughout history presents as a coherent narrative, rather than a haphazard and seemingly unrelated collection of events. Using the inductive process of grounded theory as a methodological approach, I critically examine the extant interpretive infrastructure in two case studies, Laurelhurst Park and the International Rose Test Garden. I explore the material form of each park’s historical interpretation as a series of rhetorical choices, and then suggest expansions based on each park’s respective history and the material rhetoric of the existing interpretive infrastructure. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/29064 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | historic preservation | en_US |
| dc.subject | cultural landscapes | en_US |
| dc.subject | heritage interpretation | en_US |
| dc.subject | historical interpretation | en_US |
| dc.subject | material rhetoric | en_US |
| dc.subject | Katherine Dunn | en_US |
| dc.subject | Portland Oregon | en_US |
| dc.subject | Laurelhurst Park | en_US |
| dc.subject | International Rose Test Garden | en_US |
| dc.subject | public parks | en_US |
| dc.title | Beyond City Beautiful: Interpreting Cultural Landscapes at the International Rose Test Garden and Laurelhurst Park in Portland, Oregon | en_US |
| dc.type | Terminal Project | en_US |