The Twentieth-Century Urban Commons

… freeways, airports, supermarkets, but also the airways and seemingly less material and indeed more abstract space, such as message-and image-bearing screens, cable networks, radio waves, satellites. Such spaces are the opposite of places, in whose organization cultural anthropologists were wont to read or decipher—or think they could read or decipher—people's identities, their reciprocal relations, and the symbols of their common history. In these “non-places,” one may decipher neither identity, relation, nor history.