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To Build A Space: A Reading Of Bodies, Temporality, And Urban Colonization, Delaney Tax
To Build A Space: A Reading Of Bodies, Temporality, And Urban Colonization, Delaney Tax
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Abstract
Historical and modern urban planning theory often focuses on an idealized body and subject, shaped by race, gender, and sexuality, that exists within the city. This passively and actively divides space into thresholds impenetrable by bodies othered by social and political ideologies. This project looks at the realities of colonial urban planning and the gendered, raced, and queered implications forced onto bodies and communities through the built environment. This investigation examines the frameworks present in colonial urban theory that engender meaning and knowledges onto bodies as they move through the cityscape. Exploring modes of in/access and power along built …