"Built spaces always represent control rights. They belong to someone and not to others, they can legitimately be used by some and not by others. Variable control rights over built spaces constrain what can pass in and around these spaces. Only rarely and in the most trivial senses can one show that such constraints are coupled to building form. In this view, it is the processes by which authorizations are built, maintained, contested and changed which are at issue in any social study of built spaces and technology"
Bernward Joerges, from "Do Politics Have Artefacts?" 1999
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Credits: Photo of elevated highways in Shanghai from Remko Tanis.
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