Qureshi, ZiadBeneytez-Duran, RafaelChurch, JeffreyPolkinghorne, Katherine H.2021-09-102021-09-102020-05https://hdl.handle.net/10657/8188IH-45 is an inconceivably large ribbon of infrastructure that acts as a border between political and geographic communities. IH-45’s margin shelters socio-politically marginal architectural programming. If we take space to be a material reiteration of power, then the contested and marginal territory of the NHHIP is a critical site for architectural consideration and engagement. Through non-hegemonic site analysis and the imagining of counter-futures at four sites along the NHHIP’s extent, this thesis re-conceives of the freeway’s marginal territory as site for liberatory praxis and theorizes modalities of activist engagement with megastructures and megaprojects.enThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).BiopoliticsTerritoryFoucaultLiberationActivismArchitectureInfrastructureFreewayMotelCemeteryStrip mallLand bankHonors Thesis