COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
Lines in the landscape
Creator:
Nellis, Cali
Subject:
Thesis (M.U.D.) -- Urban Design
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Urban Design
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
Primary urban systems that inform the experience of the city include its social and material infrastructures that enable a place-specific understanding of the built environment. Infrastructural networks represent a physical manifestation of the invisible boundaries among urban publics, defining the edges of contiguous communities. Physical intervention, the construction of canals, roadways and other infrastructures, inscribes lines in the landscape capable of further segregating populations across a barrier or bringing the public together in useful urban space.
This proposal for the Harry S. Truman Parkway in Savannah, Georgia investigates the limited-access freeway’s role as a barrier in the city and the potential for mitigating the negative social and political effects lingering within the right-of-way. Coordinated action in residual spaces and adjacent public land enable the infrastructure to act both as a conduit for vehicular movement and as a series of multimodal destinations, comparable to the function, capacity and character of the urban street.
This proposal for the Harry S. Truman Parkway in Savannah, Georgia investigates the limited-access freeway’s role as a barrier in the city and the potential for mitigating the negative social and political effects lingering within the right-of-way. Coordinated action in residual spaces and adjacent public land enable the infrastructure to act both as a conduit for vehicular movement and as a series of multimodal destinations, comparable to the function, capacity and character of the urban street.
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2014-06
Format:
PDF: 65 p. : ill