Mobilization of the multi-tasking machine: Up-cycling the interstate and defense highways

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dc.contributor.advisorLerup, Larsen_US
dc.creatorFrantom, Wyatt Jacoben_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T08:26:05Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T08:26:05Zen_US
dc.date.issued2001en_US
dc.description.abstractThe metropolis is governed by a certain internal logic, an ' operating system' that we are often blind; initiated at the command line and materialized through mass mobility. The code for this operating system is realized through both very specific and more esoteric social rules and practices, conventions (local code restrictions, signs and semantics) which encode our motive environment, directing our movement, allowing or more often determining our personal inertia. This operating system has more to do with timing and the interactivity of planned coincidences than with built form. While speculative, this thesis preemptively explores a potential amendment to the jurisdictional constraints between architects and developers, planners and policymakers; seeking a collaborative and comprehensive approach to reconditioning the metropolis by up-cycling our highways for alternate occupation, multiplicity and intermodality. This thesis is both a speculation into one area of the metropolitan 'operating system'---it functions as a precursor to a larger manifesto, an initial attempt to decipher, decode and recode the metropolis. Mobilization of the multi-tasking machine.en_US
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.en_US
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 2001 FRANTOMen_US
dc.identifier.citationFrantom, Wyatt Jacob. "Mobilization of the multi-tasking machine: Up-cycling the interstate and defense highways." (2001) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17422">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17422</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2728en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/17422en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectLandscape architectureen_US
dc.subjectUrban planningen_US
dc.subjectRegional planningen_US
dc.titleMobilization of the multi-tasking machine: Up-cycling the interstate and defense highwaysen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen_US
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