ABSTRACT
This chapter builts that complex material approach to urban spaces and to their textual and artistic production. It also looks at texts and public art from and about Vancouver to probe the potential of the city's symbolic glassness in different modes of urban representation. The chapter argues for an approach to the glocal as instance of the production of space in a Lefebvrian sense, since it may initially involve a juggling of the above and below views of social life, stressing thus their interaction. Thinking globalism through local lenses would reveal the inner most intricate workings of contemporary life as it articulates the dynamics of subjectivity and agency within the market economy across the different spatial scales. A common element in the representations of urban subjectivities is often the centrality of the body as the ultimate, and most intimate spatial scale.
