ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the relation between urban space and ethics, developing a critique and consideration of both the topic itself and the methodology of approaches to it. The ethos of urban space that emerges varied perspectives, from the different chronotopes, conceptual starting points and theoretical constructs, has a plural character and is expressed in a collage of images of the production. In this chapter, Kyriaki Tsoukala looks at the recent history of contemporary versions and visions of space and cites radical considerations of form, its interpretation, normativity and permanence, its constitution as a whole. Given the fact that the ethics of space is a function of the economic, political and cultural domain in which space is constituted and operates, the chapter concludes that the dynamic of free access to space needs to be studied in the context of a simultaneous quest for a spatial-social ethos of harmony between the individual and society, between private and public space.