dc.contributor.author |
Tyman, Shannon K., 1981- |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2008-12-12T00:13:52Z |
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dc.date.available |
2008-12-12T00:13:52Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2008-09 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8086 |
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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. |
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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. |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
Committee in Charge:
Dr. Louise Westling, Chair;
Dr. Ted Toadvine;
Leslie Ryan |
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dc.language.iso |
en_US |
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dc.publisher |
University of Oregon |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
University of Oregon theses, Environmental Studies Program, M.A., 2008; |
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dc.title |
Gunpowder Park: A Case Study of Post-Industrial Reinhabitation |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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