Spatial Cultures

This collection confronts the recurrent epistemological impasse that arises between research which focusses on the description of material built environments and that which is concerned primarily with the people who inhabit, govern and write about cities past and present. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary urban case studies, as well as a selection of theoretical and methodological reflections, the contributions to this volume seek to historically, geographically and architecturally contextualize diverse spatial practices including movement, encounter, play, procession and neighbourhood.

1: Spatial cultures in the ancient and medieval worlds; 1: Ancient Rome; 2: The ancient city and Huizinga's Homo Ludens; 3: 'Spatial culture' of an institution; 4: Approaching a lived experience of ancient domestic space; 5: Space for neighbourhood; 2: Spatial cultures in the long nineteenth century; 6: Thirdspace?; 7: From lines on maps to symbolic order in the city?; 8: Weaving patterns in the suburban fabric; 9: Plasticine cities; 10: What has the future of urban parks to do with their past?; 3: Historical cities, contemporary spatial cultures; 11: Between urban and digital spaces; 12: Artefact and rhythm; 13: Mediated spatial cultures; 14: Commuting with others; 15: Grindr Guys #7; 4: Perspectives and methods for spatial cultures research; 16: So long, and thanks for the GIS; 17: Making space for each other; 18: Reassembling Durkheimian sociology of space; 19: Movement in Adaptive Architecture; 20: Mobilities Design