From Eden to an endless subdivision: Cultural explorations into the emerging Coyote Springs landscape.

详细信息   

• 作者：Gushue ; Stephen P.
• 学历：Master
• 年：2007
• 导师：Starrs, Paul F.
• 毕业院校：University of Nevada
• 专业：Geography.
• ISBN：9780549337751
• CBH：1447615
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：5962605
• Pages：131

文摘

Sixty miles northeast of the Glitter Gulch (a.k.a. Las Vegas, Nevada) awaits a tract of land that was a set-aside for the causes of nuclear proliferation and a now-bygone Cold War. Today an explosion of a different sort is occurring within this parcel as a rampant cloud of recreational enthusiasm and aspiring residential development descends upon an otherwise desolate valley. Coyote Springs is hoped by its proponents to be the next great community of not just Nevada or the Southwest, but on the national scene. However, how can place truly exist before the complete physical manifestation of structures, amenities, and---most important---people? With an approach rooted in the works of J.B. Jackson, this thesis looks at Coyote Springs along three different axes of place representation---the landscape of golf, the complexity of the urban and suburban form, and as an expression of the semiotics of place. The goal is to weave together both a narrative of place and a graphic representation of an emerging cultural landscape, and in this process, ultimately to find the visible text in an intangible geographic form.