At the Water's Edge: A Cultural Institute of the Charles River

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dc.contributor.advisorWortham, Brooke Den_US
dc.contributor.authorMarquis, Tracy Annen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2005-02-02T06:58:41Z
dc.date.available2005-02-02T06:58:41Z
dc.date.issued2004-12-22en_US
dc.description.abstractRivers have provided reason for development throughout history. As a result, many of today's major cities sit at the rivers edge. For those cities that span both sides of a river, treatment of the water's edge is very important to the perception of the river in the city. This type of urban river can act as a unifier or a divider of its city. This thesis looks at urban rivers, and utlilizing them as unifying spaces. In order to deal with the river as a space, people must be able to partake in that space. As such, they must be able to inhabit the land at the water's edge. The thesis uses a site on the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts, where the movement systems along the water's edge start to break down, and thus so does the perception of the river as a space. The master-plan, the site and the buidling, a cultural institute about the Charles River, are used to bring people to the rivers edge and into the space of the river.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/2167
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUrbanen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRiveren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledParken_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledunifyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBostonen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.titleAt the Water's Edge: A Cultural Institute of the Charles Riveren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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