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Wasted Land: Finding Redemption In A Post-Industrial Monument, Kristin Marie Karlinski
Wasted Land: Finding Redemption In A Post-Industrial Monument, Kristin Marie Karlinski
Masters Theses
This thesis is about the act of inhabiting the post-industrial landscape: about how a city with the remains of and scars from a previous era can begin to repurpose those remnants--both in a physical, as well as intangible sense. Proposing an alternative to the patterns of development that created such a landscape, it offers resistance to the entrenched values of privatization, commodification, and consumption.
The chosen site--an abandoned grain elevator in Buffalo, New York--sits at a nexus of converging landscapes: the grid of downtown to the north, a former industrial canal to the east, a stretch of barren waterfront land …