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Urban Infrastructure Reconnection: Recuperating The Riverfront Of Cincinnati., Ethan William Keller
Urban Infrastructure Reconnection: Recuperating The Riverfront Of Cincinnati., Ethan William Keller
Masters Theses
Transportation infrastructure has created divides within cities, but as cities continue to grow again, these spaces can be recuperated, utilized, and integrated into the urban fabric to reconnect neighborhoods, engage people in urban culture, and insure long-term viability of cities. Cincinnati is a city that has been divided by convergent highways cutting the riverfront from the downtown and surrounding neighborhoods. These large voids of space must be activated to develop a reconnection that once existed between the city and its riverfront. Connectivity will create an abundance of pedestrian flow which will increase growth and economic opportunities for the city. Infrastructure …
70 Mph: Place And Perception In The Automotive Landscape, Erik Nathaniel Hall
70 Mph: Place And Perception In The Automotive Landscape, Erik Nathaniel Hall
Masters Theses
This project explores the adverse impact of the automobile in regards to perception and the resultant disconnect from environment exhibited in the contemporary suburban landscape. It posits that the way we move through the world affects the way we understand the world, both physiologically/sensually, and philosophically/ethically. The automobile, and its landscape, prejudices vision as a means of cognition. Specifically, it is biased to the perceptual characteristics of vision at high speed- that is, a decreased cone of vision, with a consequent increase in the total area of the peripheral visual field. This peripheral field is characterized by flattened, monocular perception, …