Document Type
Thesis, Senior
Publication Date
12-2006
Degree
B. ARCH
Keywords
urban landscape, ecosystem, networks, infrastructure, postindustrial, adaptation
Language
English
Disciplines
Architecture | Environmental Design | Landscape Architecture | Urban, Community and Regional Planning
Description/Abstract
This thesis contends that by considering the urban landscape as an evolving interconnected network, much like an ecosystem, architecture can create flexible, accessible public space as part of a larger scale system which affects as well as responds to specific physical and social forces of the contemporary postindustrial city.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Thomas, "Connective Ecology: Reclaiming the Postindustrial Urban Landscape" (2006). Senior Theses. Paper 40.
http://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/40
Source
Submission
Included in
Environmental Design Commons, Landscape Architecture Commons, Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons
Additional Information
Advised by Lori Brown, Terrance Goode