Residual Space and Other Urban Theory


©Jay Shuffield

by Jay Shuffield




Building a Theory of Residual Space
This is a first tentative step toward a theory of residual space. It will be periodically updated as I further develop the theory. Please check back for updates and submit any comments and criticism you might have.


"Visual Order in Times Square
The Social Regulation of Urban Space"




[image links to a working paper about public
 
space in the subway]©Jay Shuffield
This working paper begins to explore issues of public space within New York City's subway. A whole range of topics are discussed, including the creation of mental maps, symbolic language, spatial enclosure, security, and how the use of space is defined.

"The Subway as Intermediary Public Space"



Urban Form


Place, Identity, and Community


Globalization and Virtual Space

Globalization Reviews

"Spatial Discursions: Flames of the Digital and Ashes of the Real" Robert Nirre
"Urban Economies and Fading Distances" lecture by Saskia Sassen
"Globalization and Telecommunication: What Future for the City?" essay by Saskia Sassen
"Immigrants and Urban Planning" by Sigurd Grava
"Global City Regions: Searching for Common Ground" Barkin, Hack, Ingerson and LeRoyer
"Mobility and Proximity" John Urry
"Dream Factory Redux: Globalization, Mass Culture and Redevelopment in Hollywood" Jan Lin
"Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global in Urban Studies" Michael Peter Smith
"Of Cyber Spaces: The Internet & Heterotopias" Sherman Young
"Globalization, Urban Enfranchisement, and the Right to the City" Mark Purcell
"'Better Than (Real)Life': Cyberspace as Urban Space" Gordon Fletcher
"The Poetics of Augmented Space: Learning from Prada" Lev Manovich



Links to Other Urban Theory

New Urbanism
contact me at jws150@columbia.edu