The city is not resultant, it is deliberately constructed. And in turn, that city shapes the truth of its inhabitants. This thesis analyzes Neoliberalism, and architecture as its active agent: not only constructing space, but constructing subjectivity within that space.

In the landscape of Neoliberal policy, there emerge particular environments which aggressively naturalize Neoliberal subjectivity. It is within these islands of raw and exaggerated capital that Truth Games, typically obscured, float at the surface and begin to expose themselves. The Capital Imaginaries of Kop van Zuid (Rotterdam), Canary Wharf (London), and Hudson Yards (New York) become the targets of interrogation, each revealing one aspect of the market's ideal subject. Their Truth Games are uncovered by a cross-disciplinary research and observation of daily life. Once scripted, the Truth Games drive new representations of the city unmasked. All in an effort to see again what is right in front of us.

"Hudson Yards: The Entertained Consumer"

"Kop van Zuid: The Depoliticized Individual"

"Canary Wharf: The Uncritical Laborer"

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Additional support provided by: Honors Funding

Creative Projects 2020, School of Architecture 2020, 2020