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Infrastructure’s seductive irreducibility derives from the term’s inherently prepositional condition. Call something a “structure” and peak under its skirt to find its infra-structure. Which is to say that the world is as full of infrastructure as it is of wild women and a man can cavort for only so long before he needs to settle down for a serious and meaningful relationship.

With this in mind, I will use my tentative thesis proposal—a world’s fair--to bound the scope of my inquiry. The project will be an architectural-scale intervention that resonates within a larger urban environment. It is helpful to understand the regional dynamics into which a project can key, but I do not look to comprehensively revamp those broader logics.