Introduction

The discourses of architecture, space, built form and urban context have, at the turn of the millennium, become the pre-eminent critical idioms for cultural practitioners from a surprising diversity of fields. Sensitive to questions of community in new and radical languages, artists, performance makers, theoreticians, social scientists and interdisciplinary thinkers within, and beyond, the architectural profession, reach for the strategies and structures of the populated street to articulate the sense of their work.