Parliament/Park: Civic space for a multitudinous democracy

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dc.contributor.advisorHight, Christopher
dc.creatorMorel, Paul James
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-03T18:31:18Z
dc.date.available2018-12-03T18:31:18Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractIn civic architecture, public assembly space has become completely separated from the representational space of government. At the same time, political theorists have noted a proliferation of groups and issues that are not being adequately represented in political discourse. Parliament/Park is an attempt to imagine a collective space for the metropolis that supports a multitude of simultaneous and successive activities. Drawing on a pair of historical precedents—Cedric Price's Fun Palace and Prouvé's Maison du Peuple de Clichy—it uses transforming elements to provide programmatic opportunities for a great variety of public activities. As a para-legislative space, it would be a microcosm of political representation.
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.
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dc.format.extent75 pp
dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 2008 MOREL
dc.identifier.citationMorel, Paul James. "Parliament/Park: Civic space for a multitudinous democracy." (2008) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103545">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103545</a>.
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2656
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/103545
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.subjectCommunication and the arts
dc.titleParliament/Park: Civic space for a multitudinous democracy
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitecture
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture
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