Thoughts on Urban
Spaces
I've been doing some initial thinking towards my Urban
Spaces project. I’m toying with ideas
around occupation (enforced or otherwise) and abandonment (enforced or
otherwise) of spaces in the city.
Alongside this runs ownership,
in both a literal and a metaphorical sense.
I’m interested in why areas of cities become populated or depopulated,
and who uses what spaces for what. I’m
thinking in particular of graffiti, do cities have unique graffiti signatures,
and what does this mean for “occupation” of a space? What defines the “usefulness” of a space?
For example, skateboarders who have occupied and shaped the
space under the arches at the South Bank for years are now no longer welcome,
because the space is being commandeered for other more useful? purposes.
I’d welcome any thoughts/ideas/people & places to visit that
anyone out there in the Blogosphere may have towards this.
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