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Civic Space: An Architectural Framework for Urban Invention

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dc.contributor.authorLinnstaedt, Andrew Johnen
dc.contributor.committeechairThompson, Steven R.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWeiner, Frank H.en
dc.contributor.committeememberGartner, Howard Scotten
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:45:48Zen
dc.date.adate2010-11-02en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:45:48Zen
dc.date.issued2010-07-13en
dc.date.rdate2010-11-02en
dc.date.sdate2010-09-22en
dc.description.abstractThis project represents the search for an architecture within the physical, historical, and political situation that an existing city presents. Set within the physical bounds of Savannah, it builds upon an understanding of the city as a series of Utopian propositions existing subliminally and often incongruously. As such, the project concerns the making of public space--space to relieve the culturally disjointed condition of modern urban life by acting as a sort of stage for creative expression and collective improvisation. This also involves the making of characteristic places, which by energetically acknowledging, confronting, challenging, or amplifying the cityâ s conceptions of itself, have the potential to generate both physical and metaphysical transformations. Furthermore, in response to urban development paradigms that are either senselessly uncoordinated or mechanistically authoritarian, the project proposes an alternative: the structured interweaving of a â civic layerâ of these generative urban centers, each serving a different part of the city. The centers must function architecturally as the symbols and containers of civic life, providing space and programmatic flexibility to allow for open cultural engagement while aesthetically enlivening the urban fabric and serving collectively as an index to the city at large.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Architectureen
dc.format.extent1 volumeen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-09222010-154528en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09222010-154528/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/35154en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLinnstaedt_AJ_T_2010.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 93610940en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectreticulumen
dc.subjectnodeen
dc.subjectsquareen
dc.subjectforumen
dc.subjectframeen
dc.subjectfielden
dc.subjectgardenen
dc.subjectgriden
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 2010.L566en
dc.titleCivic Space: An Architectural Framework for Urban Inventionen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen

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