ABSTRACT
Individuals are positioned in urban environments ‘with different degrees of structurally generated power’ (Herbert 2000: 555). This means that, for example, those building urban landscapes such as architects, politicians, urban planners or policy-makers, will experience and conceive this process differently from residents or visitors. Power in the built environment is framed through various socio-cultural dimensions and the manipulation or modification of sensescapes and spatial order is one of these. Whether it entails demolishing buildings or adding street-lights, every insertion in the urban landscape alters the sensuous geography of a place and rearranges experiences and associated meanings. In other words, the transformation of sensescapes redefines the cultural politics of place.
