Geographies of Power /Architecture of Centrality

What I am trying to do this morning is talk a bit about what I think of as the geography of power and really the idea is that there are several geographies of power. And then attempt something which is somewhat of an experiment and that is to connect it with questions of architecture, particularly certain questions of architecture.

The notion that to some extent what I think of as an architecture of centrality, and I should clarify in case you haven’t guessed yet that I am not an architect and have never studied architecture. I am a political economist who is interested in space and via that venue sort of keeps stumbling onto architecture and questions about architecture and am increasing intrigued by them. But in terms of power I repeat the notion that something which one could think of as an architecture of centrality has been a key factor, of course, in the representation of power. Really in building those places where there is power mongering rather than perhaps power as such like Congress, parliaments, markets, stock exchanges, etc.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.1995.1

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