Journal article
Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments
Urban Studies, Vol.55(13), pp.2980-2995
2018
Abstract
Public space is being increasingly managed by defensive architecture, surveillance and other subtle filtering mechanisms to make it more palatable and attendant to the needs of capital. This reinforces social boundaries, making space inhospitable to those people whose presence is not welcome, and serves to discipline' city inhabitants into primarily consumption based modes of interacting with and in the city. However, disenfranchised urban populations still find ways to exist in and navigate these spaces. The purpose of this article is to highlight these ways by introducing the concept of desire lines' as a means of overcoming or re-imagining defensive space. We use Deleuze and Guattari's theory of desire as productive force, combined with De Certeau's notion of walking the city', to explore how individuals and social movements might practically, and in a metaphorical sense, create new collective paths, creating desire lines' of resistance and change within what is often an increasingly unforgiving and dominated urban environment, created by and for capital at the expense of a vibrant public realm.
Details
- Title
- Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments
- Authors
- Naomi Smith (Corresponding Author) - Federation UniversityPeter Walters (Author) - University of Queensland
- Publication details
- Urban Studies, Vol.55(13), pp.2980-2995
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- DOI
- 10.1177/0042098017732690
- ISSN
- 1360-063X
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99702398702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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