ABSTRACT
Having explored theories of spatial programming and representation I now want to turn to the concept of ‘place’ itself. What is it that is being ‘framed’? Initially this entails a focus on the ‘lifeworld’—on the phenomenology of place. There is a substantial literature on the phenomenology of place in architecture, geography and urban studies.1 My interests here are to incorporate such ideas into the critique of power and built form and to examine its intersections with theories from Chapters 2 and 3. There is no intention, however, of trying to collapse such positions into a grand theory. Indeed the tensions between them are important to many of the interpretations to follow.
