Exploring the Role of the Artifact: An Evolution of Form, Function and Memory in the Urban Landscape

The urban landscape is a diverse environment that is constantly evolving. Such change does not remove and replace all of the remnants of the city\'s past, however, and the remaining artifacts become key pieces of local identity as a result of their persistence. Even so, artifacts are also complex entities and their definition and value can be drastically different given the context in which they exist. Nonetheless, artifacts can be broadly understood as interactive elements in the urban landscape that become enmeshed in their surrounding community, and serve a vital role as a result. This enquiry examines that role of artifacts in the urban landscape and seeks to uncover how such a role can inform effective design practice into the future.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Landscape Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Landscape Architecture

Department dc:contributor.department

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Burg, Joel G.

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Katen, Brian F.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Jacobson, Wendy R.
• Stephenson, Max O. Jr.

• landscape architecture
• urban design
• urban landscape
• artifact
• Memory
• preservation

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:1017

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/23255