Looking Down on Chicago: The Elevated Perspective in the Visual Representation of Landscape and Place
Morrison, Dawn Anne
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Description
Title
Looking Down on Chicago: The Elevated Perspective in the Visual Representation of Landscape and Place
Author(s)
Morrison, Dawn Anne
Issue Date
2003
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Jakle, John A.
Department of Study
Geography
Discipline
Geography
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Geography
Language
eng
Abstract
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.
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