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Filed in: Mapping

13th February 2003

The Power of Maps

“I think that if space is deed the ‘final frontier’ then we are all in big trouble — at least in so far as social and political theory go. Perhaps the contemporary shift to metaphors of space as modes of intelligibility is architecture’s triumph — the conquest of dense urban spaces and inhabited building by the principle of open space.”

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