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Slab City, California
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Slab City, California
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spatial dynamics in an off-grid community
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Op't Hof
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Andrew David
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1978-
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Andrew David Op't Hof
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John-Alder
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Kathleen
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Kathleen John-Alder
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Lawson
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Laura
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Laura Lawson
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Hartman
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Jean Marie
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Jean Marie Hartman
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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Spatial dynamics orient our day to day lives and reflect our identities. For most, our rights to personal space are organized legally by land ownership and leasing of properties, while our rights to public space are protected by our local, state and national governments. This is not the case in Slab City, an off-grid community living on the edge of the desert in Imperial Valley, California. Slab City is a community that varies seasonally between populations of about one hundred to several thousand, and for the last half century has existed on the site of a former military camp thanks to the benign neglect of the State of California. This research focuses on participant observation as a research methodology to understand the spatial creation of inhabitants’ claims of territory. It uses the concepts of “heterotopia”, as put forward by philosopher Michel Foucault, “neo-tribalism” as described by sociologist Michel Maffesoli, and “cosmopolitan canopy” by sociologist Elijah Anderson to place inhabitants’ claims in theoretical context. I conclude that these spatial claims, far from being ephemeral and flexible, become even more salient to conceptions of home, territory, and self in the absence of legally codified land rights, and that the mixed methodology of historiography and participant observation is useful in deciphering complex palimpsests of Landscape.
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Landscape Architecture
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Renewable energy sources
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Architecture and energy conservation--California
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Sustainable development--California
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (ix, 132 p. : ill.)
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M.L.A.
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by Andrew David Op’t Hof
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ETD graduate
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Op't Hof
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Andrew
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David
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2014-12-29 23:13:43
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2016-01-31
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after January 31st, 2016.
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