The built environment as communication: Totality, alterity, and dissociation in urban and suburban spaces.

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dc.contributor.advisorKramer, Eric,en_US
dc.contributor.authorWorth, David Steven.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-16T12:18:53Z
dc.date.available2013-08-16T12:18:53Z
dc.date.issued2003en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study of the contemporary American built environment works applies several concepts in a semiotic study aimed at understanding the values presented in the built environment. In particular Kramer's theory of dissociation, Gebser's theory of mental-rationality, Merleau-Ponty's concept of alterity, and Levinas' concept of totality are used in order to read the built environment as expressing modernity. Observations were made and visual data collected in several major American cities and interpreted according to communicative expression. Spaces explored included settings consistent with Giedion's concept of anonymous history. That is, mundane spaces of freeways, residential areas, and other everyday spaces were observed. The built environment was found to express many of the characteristics elaborated by the above authors. Emphasis on vision, supervision, flow, and sectorization were especially prevalent.en_US
dc.format.extentvi, 215 leaves :en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/568
dc.noteMajor Professor: Eric Kramer.en_US
dc.noteSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: A, page: 0724.en_US
dc.subjectCommunication Social aspects.en_US
dc.subjectCommunication and technology.en_US
dc.subjectSpeech Communication.en_US
dc.subjectGeography.en_US
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineDepartment of Communicationen_US
dc.titleThe built environment as communication: Totality, alterity, and dissociation in urban and suburban spaces.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of Communication
ou.identifier(UMI)AAI3082925en_US

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