Who Owns the Land? Domestic Model Claiming the Complexity of the Spatial Ownership Pattern

Land, as a natural resource, a crucial role in city life and is seldom questioned on the ownership by architects, users and developers. In the development of urban housing, shifting the land control to privatization causes the destruction of housing, which is called capitalist accumulation. As a result, the displacement of unprofitable housing and residents is happening. However, if the land is argued as the natural resource, the common goods, the chain of “land control, the production of space and the social order” should be seen as the multipartite network between who owns the land and who use the land. To understanding the land as social and political, the property issue addresses the way we view the urban land from the points of rules, regulations and complex network of ownership. From the other end, the, the ownership also evoke the discussion of domestic sphere, like the discussion of the feminist theory and the social convention. So, the topic is focused on the domesticity claiming the social ownership pattern in urban condition. To spatialize the interplay of social and political forces of ownership, the issues address the land division, property rules and private vs. public realms.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Grantor

Rice University

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Luo, Qi

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Grenader, Nonya
• Finley, Dawn

• ownership
• property line
• social ownership
• domesticity

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• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108320

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.rice.edu:1911/108320