ABSTRACT
These habitats bring together our own engagement with practice and discourse while existing along several fault lines. In this essay we examine some of these fault lines, which can be understood as follows. First, mapping territories that are urban, rural and forested as discrete categories tends to create fixed aggregative habitats like villages, cities and wild habitats. Any anachronism becomes an issue to be resolved. Second, such mapping of ter ritories feeds back into each o f those habitats as discrete functions, which are seen to be appropriate, either to one or the other. This mostly translates into activities being classified as appropriate or inappropriate. For example, farm ing or cattle rearing cannot take place in cities, while manufacturing activities are not seen to function as efficiently in rural areas. Cities are perceived as taking over rural areas and forests are seen to be threatened by the existence o f all human presence. Thirdly, this further expresses itself at a micro-level in the smallest unit o f occupying space, which mostly becomes about zoning.
