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The Rhetorical Dimensions Of Place-Making: Texts, Structures, And Movement In Atlantic Station, Brook Alys Irving
The Rhetorical Dimensions Of Place-Making: Texts, Structures, And Movement In Atlantic Station, Brook Alys Irving
Communication Theses
The suggestion that cities “speak” has become a growing interest in communication scholarship, yet the particular ways city spaces communicate remains under theorized. I argue that the intersection of people with spaces, the networks between texts, objects, and movement are all implicated in the rhetorical process of place-making in which individuals are both shaped by and shaping space. I envision this process to involve three interdependent modes of symbolization: textual constructions about place, symbolic activities of place, and movement and action in space. The mode of inquiry proposed here contributes to a body of scholarship interested in exploring the multiple …