Print Email Facebook Twitter Contesting Territories Title Contesting Territories: The significance of the Plein to the power contests between the Dutch government and the people Author Chiu, Cyrus (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics) Contributor Teunissen, M.M. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Project AR2A011 Date 2024-04-18 Abstract The thesis is going to unravel, in a spatial sense, the relationship between public space and the power in the Netherlands through the case of the Plein since the 1980s till now. By the analysis on the previous discussions and disputes over the design and use of the Plein, it aims to indicate the priorities of the government and the public in their disputes on the use of public space. And how such use of space affect to the society. Throughout the thesis, the power imbalance between political and public sector, the unseen dominance of the government over public space, and their negative impacts on the formation of democratic society will also be analyzed. Subject AR2A011public spacepolitical participationspatial justiceThe Haguedemocracy To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:71d4ba95-6ed8-4904-b723-2fa68dcefb36 Coordinates 52.07976656791655, 4.315995083454898 Part of collection Student theses Document type student report Rights © 2024 Cyrus Chiu Files PDF 20240418_Thesis_CyrusChiu.pdf 17.24 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:71d4ba95-6ed8-4904-b723-2fa68dcefb36/datastream/OBJ/view