Dreams of Slaughter

dc.contributor.authorCraig, Jessica Calafia
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-02T18:53:31Z
dc.date.available2013-05-02T18:53:31Z
dc.date.issued2013-05-02T18:53:31Z
dc.date.submitted2013
dc.description.abstractA descent into the ravine is a step through a tear in urbanity. The terrain vague is a foil to the capitalist city; against a demand for order, specificity, and integration, it is disorienting, banal, erratic. Operating outside the constraints of dominant social structures, it harbours the unconscious of the city, not only an inevitable, but also a necessary rupture in the urban fabric. In this subterranean realm, the striated and measured plots of land are sporadically smoothed over by persistent nature, reclaiming its territory. These perceived voids invite projections of desire, both at a civic scale and on an individual level, that consequently shape the space. These are grounds of negotiation, a political realm often driven more by visceral impulses than economics. They aggravate tensions typically suppressed in the city, including those wrought by violence and melancholy. This is a portrait of the Don Valley in Toronto. Fragments of representation reveal the role of this space in the collective memory of the public. Beyond the infrastructure that binds them, the city and the valley are integrated through their opposition: one fuels the experience of the other.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/7513
dc.language.isoenen
dc.pendingfalseen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectarchitectureen
dc.subjectDon Valleyen
dc.subjectphotographyen
dc.subjectpublicen
dc.subjectrepresentationen
dc.subjectterrain vagueen
dc.subjectTorontoen
dc.subjecturbanen
dc.subjectunconsciousen
dc.subject.programArchitectureen
dc.titleDreams of Slaughteren
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Architectureen
uws-etd.degree.departmentSchool of Architectureen
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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