Archive for the ‘Scale’ Category

Contours of a Spatialized Politics: Homeless Vehicles and the Production of Geographical Scale

The Homeless Vehicle is a jarring intervention in the landscapes of the evicted. Designed by Krzysztof Wodiczko, a New York artist, the vehicle was first exhibited in 1988. The prototype was constructed in consultation with homeless men and subsequently women; it was first tested in the streets of New York’s Lower East Side, then elsewhere [...]

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The Restructuring of Geographical Scale: Coalescence and Fragmentation of the Northern Core Region

In order to understand the dimensions and significance of contemporary regional restructuring and in order to provide a coherent basis for a “new regional geography,” it is vital to tackle the question of scale. We hypothesize in this paper that the scale at which economic regions are constituted is periodically transformed, and we attempt to [...]

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