Looking Down on Chicago: The Elevated Perspective in the Visual Representation of Landscape and Place

I evaluate how elevated perspective representations have been perceived over time, and find that they have been used in real and meaningful ways throughout Chicago's history. I argue that what makes the elevated perspective unique from other representational forms, at least as a strategy of seeing, is the combination of socially agreed upon visual conventions, of which I outline seven broadly defined categories commonly invoked by this form of representation, and the social construction of its technological means of production. That is, elevated perspective representations are imbued with communicative significance by their ability to not only invoke specific visual conventions, but also be symbolic of the very technologies that produce them.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geography

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Morrison, Dawn Anne

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jakle, John A.

• Geography

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3101928

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85144