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Transforming Nature Of Place And Route 280, Peteris Ratas
Transforming Nature Of Place And Route 280, Peteris Ratas
Theses
This thesis studies the nature of place, which is a specific, identified location in space, in the conditions of driving in a car on a highway. This study opposes the common opinion that highways destroy identity of a specific location and they have only utilitarian role. This thesis wants to prove that on Route 280 exist a possibility for an identity of a location and that the highway is a place, but the traditional dimensions of a place are modified by high-speed travel in a car. It will analyze actual observations on Route 280.
Traditionally, space was inhabited at slow …