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Life in car land

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Life in car land
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freeing space for people on U.S. Route 1
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Williams
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Kari
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1989-
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Kari Williams
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John-Alder
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Kathleen
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Kathleen John-Alder
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chair
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Laura
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Laura Lawson
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Bartolone
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Richard
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Richard Bartolone
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Rutgers University
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This manifesto on the car landscape interrogates and redesigns a suburban highway strip in New Jersey. The 17.2 mile stretch of U.S. Route 1 between Trenton and New Brunswick is a divided surface highway that frustrates drivers, is unsafe for pedestrians, and impossible for cyclists. The thesis questions how this failing landscape came about, and what forces prevent it from improving. In doing so, it explores the landscape implications of our co-dependence on the car, considering both the driving experience and associated land uses. The research exposes the twentieth-century illusion that mechanized speed provides individual autonomy and progress. It then looks toward the future, at the potential of autonomous vehicle technology to change our relationship with cars and thereby reshape suburban transportation infrastructure. The proposed design solution for Route 1 separates ourselves from our cars. The design functions at multiple scales, from regional planning, to highway infrastructure, to site-scale landscapes. At its most essential, the proposal is a separation of fast through-traffic and slower local traffic, utilizing a series of flyways that bridge each intersection. That separation reverses our notion that fast is freedom by calling for discrete realms and speeds for two different autonomies: mechanized and personal. In addition, the flyways shrink the amount of space currently consumed by interchanges and highway ramps, claiming approximately 200 acres of publicly-owned land back from the car. The reclaimed landscapes at each intersection become community and ecological resources to spur new, human-centric, relationships to Route 1.
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Landscape Architecture
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (vi, 112 p. : ill.)
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M.L.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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United States Highway 1
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Transportation--New Jersey
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by Kari M Williams
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doi:10.7282/T33B63M2
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ETD graduate
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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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