Urbanities,
Vol. 3
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No 2
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November 2013
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Urbanities
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The observation of the processes of semanticisation occurring with the production of
places, such as the treatment of the different layers of our urban landscapes, is important for
two reasons. Firstly, it allows us fully to understand the way in which ‘societies cope,
symbolically manipulating their space, with change and tradition’ (Micoud 1991: 7-8).
Secondly, it can help us better to approach the complexity of the polymorphic, progressive
and sometimes discordant processes related to the construction and the production of
identities in an urban setting.
