1. Voyeurs: Opportunistic, privileged view of the space, "like a god". They are free from the visual restrictions, and "totalize the most immoderate of human texts". They are no longer a part of the landscape, or an individual with a socially entitled identity. "one's body is no longer clasped by the streets that turn and return it according to an anonymous law" (p.157)
2. Walkers/Wandersmanner:"...whose bodies follow the thicks and thins of an urban 'text' they write without being able to read it. The most city "consumers", who mindlessly map the city with "transparent text". each body participates in this invisible writing-"each body is an element signed by many others, elude legibility".
3. Concept-City: Idealized city with strategies where it preserves the past and foresees the future, and follow three operations; establishment of rational organization (that compensates for "physical, mental, and political pollutions"), performance of historical traditions, and a universal subject that attracts the consumers- groups, associations, or individuals who can be "stable, isolatable, and interconnected" all the same. It functions as "a place of transformations and appropriations, the object of various kinds of interference but also a subject that is constantly enriched by new attributes." (p.159)
4. Urban/Spatial Practices: "area where discipline is manipulated"(p.160), walking and utilizing vast area instead of staying on one location or spot
Key Words:
Totalization, voyeur, visibility/blind, transparent/human text, legibility, daily, representations, mobiliity, migrational, accumulation, urban agglomeration, tradition, universal, nowhen, opportunity, history, compromise, constructing space, interconnection, isolatable, stable, urbanizing, system, decay, discipline, passing by, practice, passers-by, existence, style, use, operation, trajectory, meaning, deambulation, symbolic order, extermination, legends, silences, travel, exits, taxonomies, semantic place, accepted framework, imposed order
Reference
Buchanan I (2000) Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist, London: Sage
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