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The Materiality of Territorial Production - A Conceptual Discussion of Territoriality, Materiality and the Everyday Life of Public Space

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Summary, in English

This article brings together research on territoriality and actor-network theory in order to develop new ways of investigating the role of materiality and material design in the territorial power relations of urban public places. Using the public square as a main example, I suggest some new ways of conceptualizing the production and stabilization of territories in the everyday urban environment. Setting out from a brief outline of the history of territoriality research, I re-appropriate the traditional approaches from the viewpoint of actants rather than persons or institutions, suggesting a distinction between four different forms of territorial production. I then go on to conceptualize some material ways of stabilizing the effects of these territorial productions. Finally, I argue that public space can be seen as constituted by a territorial complexity, thus pointing to the relationship between materiality and public space, via territorial stabilization and production.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

437-453

Publication/Series

Space and Culture

Volume

10

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Building Technologies

Keywords

  • ANT
  • materiality
  • architectural theory
  • everyday life
  • territoriality
  • public space
  • urban design

Status

Published

Research group

  • Department of Architecture & Built Environment

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1206-3312