ABSTRACT
This chapter compiles a series of reflections about the implications of interstitial spaces in urban studies, and the role of urban interstices in the development of cities and the urbanisation process. Based on previous findings, in this chapter the interstitial spaces are presented as active elements of the sprawling urbanisation of cities and regions and as platforms for economic exchange, mobility, relationality, transition, and attraction of diverse interests around environmental preservation and change. The interstitial spaces encapsulate spatial relations and present an integrative nature to support planning schemes that are latent to the non-urban geographies of cities and regions. As such, the interstitial spaces demonstrate that politics are never absent from the fortunes of interstitial spaces and have implications in the extant theories of urban politics.
