ABSTRACT

The position of the barriers to freedom of mobility, free entry into and installation in space, thus cuts across human happiness at the phenomenon of socio-spatial exclusion. The ethos of a city that is accessible to all would approach a horizon of socio-spatial sustainability, being further resistant to the multileveled absorbing mechanisms of today. In the measure that the moral dimension of space shifted from its normative function to its localised experience, the phenomenon of socio-spatial exclusion takes on an individualised form and the question of access illuminates difference. Given that space is an element of everyday life and also configures practices, it necessarily takes part in this political engagement, and this participation is itself configured within the plural context where the space itself is produced in all its forms. In its association with access to space and goods, otherness was restricted to a celebration of the plethora of existing differences, a fact that political liberalism welcomed and further developed.