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dc.contributor.advisorAnne Whiston Spirn.en_US
dc.contributor.authorArbona, Javier, 1976-en_US
dc.contributor.otherMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.en_US
dc.coverage.spatialnwpr---en_US
dc.date.accessioned2005-06-02T19:10:54Z
dc.date.available2005-06-02T19:10:54Z
dc.date.issued2004en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17918
dc.descriptionThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2004.en_US
dc.description"June 2004."en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (p. 117-121).en_US
dc.description.abstractThe donning of camouflage gear by military forces is uniformly understood to be an attempt to dissolve into a background matrix in order to deceive an enemy in combat, or in a combat simulation. This thesis examines the landscape of Vieques, Puerto Rico, to disprove such notion and move towards proving the opposite: that the military assembled the background matrix according to its own set of interests. Through different communication channels and agents, the military arranges the retrospective gaze into the landscape, recasting the past in the service of its future stratagems. The military communicates to visitors that they gaze at original, primeval nature, when in fact it is a successional vegetation misrepresented as primordial. This scenography proves nearly unquestionable when it is adopted by corporate tourism marketing at the end of the 20th century, but does not appeal to the leisure audience only. It also seduces all those that opposed the military, perpetuating an idea of Vieques without people in the process.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityby Javier Arbona.en_US
dc.format.extent121 p.en_US
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
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dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technologyen_US
dc.rightsM.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582
dc.subjectArchitecture.en_US
dc.titleVieques, Puerto Rico : from devastation to conservation, and back againen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.degreeS.M.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
dc.identifier.oclc56770221en_US


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