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Nationalism and urban design: the parliament houses of Canberra and Bangkok

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  • Sidh Sintusingha
  • Ross King

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Both Canberra and Bangkok have in recent times invoked design competitions to initiate new Parliament buildings. The Canberra case was in a tradition of open international competition, that of Bangkok limited to Thai architects, with both bringing ‘the nation’ into deliberation. In each, the design needed to negotiate an established urban landscape: in Canberra an urban design of axial set-pieces, formal and geometric, of largely US derivation; in Bangkok, a less ordered urban landscape, organically evolved over centuries. The resulting urban design complexes raise questions of how the idea of the nation is to be represented in urban space.

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  • Sidh Sintusingha & Ross King, 2021. "Nationalism and urban design: the parliament houses of Canberra and Bangkok," Journal of Urban Design, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(4), pages 496-513, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjudxx:v:26:y:2021:i:4:p:496-513
    DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2021.1874239
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    1. Ross King, 2023. "Re-writing history, re-inscribing the city: Thailand and delusions of democracy," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 41(7), pages 1391-1406, November.

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