Gunpowder Park: A Case Study of Post-Industrial Reinhabitation
| dc.contributor.author | Tyman, Shannon K., 1981- | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-12-12T00:13:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-12-12T00:13:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-09 | |
| dc.description | xi, 115 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | As urbanization increases, there is growing pressure upon derelict and contaminated sites (i.e. brownfields) for new development. Creatively (re)considering these post-industrial spaces is essential to ecological health. Ecology, as philosopher Felix Guattari has observed, is not a simple equation but a complex of relations. As the landscape plays a critical role in mediating the human-nature relationship, the recomposition of our landscapes may enable a new quality of (postmodern, urban) life. Just outside of Greater London, Gunpowder Park provides an example of a munitions testing site that is now a park for arts, science, and nature. The new alliances developing on this site stress an artistic perspective and thus gesture toward dwelling differently. Synthesized from bioregionalism and Guattari' s ethico-aesthetic paradigm, reinhabitation is developed as a place-engaged, politically-active, ethically-attentive, and aesthetically-inspired lifestyle through which to take responsibility for our landscapes and seek new relationships with ourselves and the world around us. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Committee in Charge: Dr. Louise Westling, Chair; Dr. Ted Toadvine; Leslie Ryan | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/8086 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon theses, Environmental Studies Program, M.A., 2008; | |
| dc.title | Gunpowder Park: A Case Study of Post-Industrial Reinhabitation | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
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