ABSTRACT
There is also an element of ‘chaos’ which is intrinsic to the spatial. For although the location of each (or a set) of a number of phenomena may be directly caused (we know why x is here and y is there), the spatial positioning of one in relation to the other (x’s location in relation to y) may not be directly caused. Such relative locations are produced out of the independent operations of spatial determination. They are in that sense ‘unintended consequences’. Thus, the chaos of the spatial results from the happenstance juxtapositions, the accidental separations, the often paradoxical nature of the spatial arrangements that result from the operation of all these causalities… the relation between social relations and spatiality may vary between that of a fairly coherent system (where social and spatial forms are mutually determined) and that where the particular spatial form is not socially caused at all.
