ABSTRACT
With the objective in mind Henri Lefebvre was quite clear about the relevance of symbolic and attributed qualities for the contested urban settings. His famous model framework for a descriptive analysis of urban spaces, the ‘spatial triad’, already integrated conceptually the dimensions of the physical space, the spatial practices and the notion of concepts, perceptions and projections related to it. Lefebvre came to the notion that the qualities of physical-spatial situations and settings in the urban environment can be read as space-time-functions, as what he described as ‘rhythms’. The sphere of classical transport and traffic activities, the Mobility Landscape, represents itself very much as the battlefield between established goals for reducing or abating transport activities, and the thrust to modernise public and private transport systems. Under the conditions of extreme Flux the stable qualities of a landscape or urban situation may be totally lost to the subjective impression of time constrains, with impressions of constant flow and even speed.
