Space, place and territory: a critical review on spatialities./ Fabio Duarte

Introduction, 1. Constructions, 2. The Enactment of Space, Place, and Territory, 3. Sensing the City, 4. Mapping the City, 5. Conceiving the City, 6. What is Next? Conceiving the City, 7. Challenging the City, 8. Final Remarks: Spatial Negotiations

Space, place, and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology. Although space, place, and territory are indeed polysemic and polemic, they have particular characteristics that distinguish them from each other. They are interdependent but not interchangeable, and the differences between them explain how we simultaneously perceive, conceive, and design multiple spatialities. After drawing the conceptual framework of space, place, and territory, the book initially explores how we sense space in the most visceral ways, and how the overlay of meanings attached to the sensorial characteristics of space change the way we perceive it-smell, spatial experiences using EEG, and the changing meaning of darkness are discussed. The book continues exploring cartographic mapping not as a final outcome, but rather as an epistemological tool, an instrument of inquiry. It follows on how particular ideas of space, place, and territory are embedded in specific urban proposals, from Brasilia to the Berlin Wall, airports, and infiltration of digital technologies in our daily life. The book concludes by focusing on spatial practices that challenge the status quo of how we perceive and understand urban spaces, from famous artists to anonymous interventions by traceurs and hackers of urban technologies.