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People's Spaces

Familiarization, Subject Formation and Emergent Spaces in Colombo

Author : Perera, N.

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Place of Publish: London

Year: 2009

Page Numbers: 75

Acc. No: 885-S

Category: Soft Documents

Languages: English

In between and besides official plan-making, ordinary people produce more quantity and variety of spaces than the authorities and professionals. They both adapt to and adjust extant spaces for their daily activities and cultural practices, thus producing lived spaces out of abstract space. Yet we know very little about these basic space-making processes. This article aims to acknowledge and