The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

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28.3 28.4 green is closed (it would need a twenty-four-hour guard to keep it open), across our kitchen window a metal grill is supposed to put off burglars— but you feel its presence while you do the washing up, it makes you feel hemmed in (it also spoils the view), violence may stop you going out at night. The utterly material spaces of the city are thereby reworked from the planners’ dreams. The place that is this corner of the estate is also the prod-

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green is closed (it would need a twenty-four-hour guard to keep it open),<br />

across our kitchen window a metal grill is supposed to put off burglars—<br />

but you feel its presence while you do the washing up, it makes you feel<br />

hemmed in (it also spoils the view), violence may stop you going out at<br />

night. <strong>The</strong> utterly material spaces of the city are thereby reworked from the<br />

planners’ dreams. <strong>The</strong> place that is this corner of the estate is also the prod-

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