Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Tourism"
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Deconstructing a Landscape Out-of-Place: the Afterlife of Rural Hollowing
(2022-10-13)This thesis explores declining villages in the process towards rural hollowing. Rural hollowing, this phenomenon exhibits increasingly in depopulating rural settlements, results from fading infrastructural services, ... -
Exploitive By Design: Warning Signs From the Northwest Amazon
(2021-05-19)This body of work concerns the impact of imposed capital and culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries’ “Rubber Boom” and today’s 21st-century tourism industry in Iquitos, Peru, because there are parallels in the effects ... -
FROM PASTURE TO PRESERVATION : CATTLE AND CATALYZING AGRICULTURE AND REFORESTATION
(2023-05-17)Terceira Island, part of the Azores archipelago, is known for being home to more cows than people, its dairy industry, and its booming tourism. However, overgrazing and the influx of visitors threaten the island's agricultural ... -
Mendenhall in Motion: Inscribing Glacial Time and Animating Ecological Thresholds
(2023-05-17)Sited in Juneau, Alaska, this project interrogates the aging tourist infrastructure surrounding Mendenhall Valley’s retreating glacier and proposes novel modes of access and interaction. Mendenhall Valley’s existing agenda ...