places and change

understanding space
· places underlie a constant chan-
· through the extension and ge through social influences
asemblance of things one becoming · one place can have multiple so-
perceives space as specific, cial meanings
material space · places can be manipulated, re-
· a basis for scientific concepts signified and subverted to achieve
· Newton interpreted space as different processes, create a diffe-
homogenous, infinite and inde- rent meaning
pendent of obstacles, ·this strategy is especially used in
assuming that space is existing contested urban places, to ques-
without material presence tion a meaning, represented by a
socio-spatial understanding of places place

+ · place has distinct materiality, an environment

historically constructed through roads, objects and see
design
space as a formal structure · sites where people live, work, move, form attachments,
negotiate between each other, practice their relations places and power
· understood as polydimenti-
· complicated set of social relations, individually experienced
onal metric frame system, in · through regulating and medi-
· constituted through the polyvalent inter-connectivities linking
which objects can be located ating social relations and daily
different protagonists
and portrayed routines, places places become
· latest conceptual idea connecting different understandings of
· filled with social relations and an instrument of power
socio-economic places is the “matrix-space“ theory, which
legal, political, economic and - are used for representation,
assumes space (place) to be an inherent aspect
historic dimensions it becomes distinction
of social practice

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