The garden in the machine: Rethinking nature and history in the post-industrial landscape

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dc.contributor.advisorBell, Michael
dc.creatorTerpeluk, Brett
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T07:00:43Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T07:00:43Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.description.abstractLying in the wake of accelerated technological advancement is a landscape of economic and environmental consequence. As older industrial facilities become obsolete, newer technologies look towards virgin land for growth. In turn, the industrial city, once the recipient of generous corporate taxation and stable work force, is saddled with social unrest, economic stagnation, and vast tracts of infrastructure-laden land. Such is the case with the vacated Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. At the root of this thesis is a conviction that regeneration of this site needs to be approached as a multidimensional phenomenon which touches upon the organic, the economic, and the chemical. As such, a kind of petri dish can emerge where physical entropy and the erosion of memory coexist with economic and ecologic growth. This thesis attempts to define a new beginning by bridging the cleft between growth and decay. The history of this site, its entropic future, and the beginnings of a new history are conflated into a single continuum.
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dc.format.extent59 pp
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 1998 TERPELUK
dc.identifier.citationTerpeluk, Brett. "The garden in the machine: Rethinking nature and history in the post-industrial landscape." (1998) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17217">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17217</a>.
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2663
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/17217
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectEcology
dc.subjectLandscape architecture
dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.subjectUrban planning
dc.subjectRegional planning
dc.titleThe garden in the machine: Rethinking nature and history in the post-industrial landscape
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitecture
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture
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