RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Inter-subjective Qualitative Landscape Interpretation: A Contributing Research Methodology in the Exploration of the “Edge City”
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 103
OP 110
DO 10.3368/lj.19.1-2.103
VO 19
IS 1-2
A1 Peter Callahan
YR 2000
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/19/1-2/103.abstract
AB This paper examines an inter-subjective qualitative landscape interpretation of an “edge city” site, in conjunction with the more traditional objective analysis, in order to identify the qualities which cause the “edge city” to be a place of limited human interaction. Utilizing a phenomenological approach, the author helps students in an advanced Landscape Architecture studio to free their minds in an intuitive process and offer insights into the emotional and non-physical qualities of urban places. These unseen qualities may either benefit or detract from human well-being in a given place. By gaining inter-subjective interpretation patterns amongst students, qualities inherent to the “edge city” can be explored and understood. These new understandings could inform the re-design of such places.