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Hijacked | Reclaiming Legislative Loopholes, Lara Moock
Hijacked | Reclaiming Legislative Loopholes, Lara Moock
Architecture Senior Theses
ARTICLE 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS.
SEC. 100. PURPOSES.
San Francisco’s current political legislation has critical loopholes that have constructed a predominant shift in the city’s identity and urban fabric, as well as an obvious neglect of the public realm and social agenda. The recent move of the Silicon Valley tech headquarters to the city’s center has dramatically changed the architectural landscape as well as reinforced a growing push for corporate privatization. This thesis aims to expose and confront the hidden political and social dynamics of the constructed environment and reclaim the existing loopholes in order to propose a project without major …