Sea change or, impending dune

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dc.contributor.advisorLast, Nana
dc.creatorSchuster, Kristin Akkerman
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T08:47:08Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T08:47:08Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.description.abstractThe slow disaster of shoreline erosion has been met with various human attempts to control the relationship between Galveston Island and the Gulf of Mexico. In territorializing the island as private property, the main economic draw (the beach) is being sacrificed as the sandbar is increasingly expected to behave like a stable landmass. Private Property Rights and Public Beach Access clash as the difference between the land and the sea refuses to manifest itself as a line drawn through space. There is latent potential within the land itself to work with a beach access infrastructure that operates as a mesh. Such a system can transgress problematic territorial boundaries and mark out multiple processes of reterritorialization as they are occurring on the site. In this way, the forces at work in shaping the island can become culturally relevant in a constructive way, altering the human relationship with the land.
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.
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dc.format.extent75 pp
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 2003 SCHUSTER
dc.identifier.citationSchuster, Kristin Akkerman. "Sea change or, impending dune." (2003) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17624">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17624</a>.
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2910
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/17624
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectLandscape architecture
dc.subjectUrban planning
dc.subjectRegional planning
dc.titleSea change or, impending dune
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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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