ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to work Castells' ideas about the space of flows to aid the conceptualization of what might be understood as flowing places wherein circuits of affluence have created mobile enclaves and social exclusivity. Graham and Marvin's splintered urbanism is perhaps the central lens through which to view these changes, as private and protected nodes are linked by secured pathways and networks with premiums attached to access. The misanthropy suggested by the social networks of the affluent in of today's urban systems appears capable of helping us to understand how the end of an urbanism comprising diversity, difference and a shared public realm may arise as a result of the secession of the successful and fragmentation of local state authority into petty fiefdoms of private governance. A flowing form and extension of these enclaves is created by a networked urbanism that has generated the ability of circuits of affluence to go beyond the relatively static containers of residential neighbourhoods.
