Place In The Middle Landscape

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dc.contributor.authorPoston, Stephen K.en
dc.contributor.committeechairGartner, Howard Scotten
dc.contributor.committeememberO'Brien, Michael J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberPittman, V. Hunteren
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:22:01Zen
dc.date.adate1997-01-29en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:22:01Zen
dc.date.issued1997-01-29en
dc.date.rdate1998-01-29en
dc.date.sdate1998-07-24en
dc.description.abstractThe ideals of a democratic society coupled with the vast expansiveness of the American landscape have led to settlement patterns within the urban environment that are distinctively American and non-traditional. The continual tension between principles of collective majority rule and rights of individual equality has led to an identifiable urban form that is neither city, with its collective characteristics, nor country, with its sense of individual freedom, but a vast middle landscape where the majority of Americans live, work, shop, and recreate. The current middle landscape has developed into a place where accommodation of the automobile, providing its sense of autonomous movement, dictates the form and order of the built environment. While investing great efforts toward the development of means of movement between places - the places themselves have been forgotten. The middle landscape, a legitimate urban form rooted in the history, culture, and natural environment of American city development, has become a place that is vastly scaled and oblivious to human existence. The thesis is an examination of this middle landscape with an attempt at the making of place within an otherwise place-less environment.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Architectureen
dc.format.extent86 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-44922241971540en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-44922241971540/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/30543en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartspbook.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 37603106en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectArchitectureen
dc.subjectretailen
dc.subjectsuburbanen
dc.subjecturbanen
dc.subjectcommercialen
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1997.P678en
dc.titlePlace In The Middle Landscapeen
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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