<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-7.xsd"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Living Skeletons: The Legacy of American Architecture in the Panamá Canal Zone</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods: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.</mods:abstract><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Rice-Rodríguez, Miriam</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm authority="marcrelator" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cre">creator</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Bonde, Sheila</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm authority="marcrelator" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ths">thesis advisor</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Martinez-Pinzón, Felipe</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm>reader</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="corporate"><mods:namePart>Brown University. Latin American and Caribbean Studies</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">sponsor</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:originInfo><mods:copyrightDate>2023</mods:copyrightDate></mods:originInfo><mods:typeOfResource authority="primo">text_resources</mods:typeOfResource><mods:physicalDescription><mods:digitalOrigin>born digital</mods:digitalOrigin></mods:physicalDescription><mods:language><mods:languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="text" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2.html" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng">English</mods:languageTerm></mods:language><mods:note type="thesis">Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2023</mods:note><mods:note displayLabel="Concentration">Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Architecture</mods:note><mods:genre authority="aat">theses</mods:genre><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01073032"><mods:topic>Postcolonialism</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00957846"><mods:topic>Historic sites</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00813346"><mods:topic>Architecture</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01207252"><mods:topic>Canal Zone</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00841127"><mods:topic>Buildings--Remodeling for other use</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:accessCondition type="use and reproduction">All rights reserved</mods:accessCondition><mods:accessCondition type="rights statement" xlink:href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</mods:accessCondition><mods:accessCondition type="restriction on access">All Rights Reserved</mods:accessCondition><mods:identifier type="doi">10.26300/ascz-2k32</mods:identifier></mods:mods>