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Hays, David L. Hochhalter, Anna 2013-05-24T21:53:52Z 2013-05-24T21:53:52Z 2013-05 2013-05-24T21:53:52Z 2013-05 Through discourse analysis and site evaluation, this thesis asks two questions: first, what is the potential of the contemporary urban waterfront to structure and perpetuate meaningful spectacle; and second, what is the potential for spectacle to restructure the post-industrial public waterfront thus affording these sites more transformative power within society? Discourse analysis of spectacle is used in order to establish a typology of spectacle as well as a new definition of the phenomenon. Three case study cities—New Orleans, New York City, and Chicago—are evaluated in order to understand contemporary design strategies in post-industrial public waterfront projects. Spectacle is newly defined by the author as, “a visible deviation from the norm intended to provoke a response.” That understanding of spectacle is then explored as a design strategy on a riverfront site in downtown Detroit, Michigan, as part of the Detroit by Design 2012 Detroit Riverfront Competition. The author proposes a concept called “CityWorks Plaza & Port: a Publicly Owned Working Wharf and Repurposing Cooperative” as a model for Detroit. CityWorks Plaza and Port capitalizes on two detrimental aquatic invasive species: the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) and zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and asserts that making work visible, in public, is spectacular—as noted, “a visible deviation from the norm intended to provoke a response.” In conclusion, this thesis discusses how instrumentalizing spectacle in design can lead to a post-post-industrial scenario—one which merges industrial space with public space, thus enabling a more diverse and generative economy while meeting public demands for waterfront access and recreational space. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-04-25T13:03:57Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Hochhalter_Anna.pdf: 15780437 bytes, checksum: c43535067e07828100e20c48e1accae5 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-24T21:53:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Anna_Hochhalter.pdf: 15780437 bytes, checksum: c43535067e07828100e20c48e1accae5 (MD5) license.txt: 4065 bytes, checksum: 6a08cc462b339767a410ffb0e0d3bf88 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/44194 en Copyright 2013 Anna L. Hochhalter post-industrial waterfront riverfront spectacle productive landscape service economy Parks Detroit Chicago New York City New Orleans Waterfront spectacular text Landscape Architecture 1569 Landscape Architecture 0156 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.L.A. MLA:Lndscpe Architecture -UIUC 10KS0156MLA