- Title Information
- Title
- Living Skeletons: The Legacy of American Architecture in the Panamá Canal Zone
- Abstract
- At the dawn of the new millennium, the United States transferred the entirety of the Canal Zone to Panamá, including approximately 5000 buildings with an estimated value of $4 billion. This physical legacy presented a challenge to the Republic: How would Panamanians reinhabit the vestiges of American occupation? How would they choose to remember the United States and its cultural contributions? This work takes a critical look at adaptive reuse of public buildings in the Canal Zone bordering Panamá City in the neighborhoods of Balboa, Fort Clayton, and Fort Amador in the past two decades. It then aims to identify potential intervention sites for future adaptive reuse projects in these neighborhoods. It argues for a hybrid approach to repatriation rather than the extremes of preservation or demolition. Panamá's heritage of Zonian architecture is worth protecting. Hybrid approaches of adaptive reuse are a medium through which Panamanians can reframe their history within the colonial narrative, while thinking critically about the future of the nation.
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Rice-Rodríguez, Miriam
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
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- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Bonde, Sheila
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
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- thesis advisor
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Martinez-Pinzón, Felipe
- Role
- Role Term
- reader
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- sponsor
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2023
- Type of Resource (primo)
- text_resources
- Physical Description
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- born digital
- Language
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- English
- Note:
thesis
- Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2023
- Note
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- Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Architecture
- Genre (aat)
- theses
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Postcolonialism
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Historic sites
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Architecture
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Canal Zone
- Subject (fast)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00841127")
- Topic
- Buildings--Remodeling for other use
- Access Condition:
use and reproduction
- All rights reserved
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- All Rights Reserved
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/ascz-2k32