ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 focuses on the residents’ recollections of the physical and social landscape, which turned Utterslev Mark into the North West, roughly covering the period of 1890s through the 1950s. The chapter focuses on three aspects of the subjective experience of how Utterslev Mark became the North West: the transformation of the physical landscape, the emotionality embedded in the residents’ recollections of the neighbourhood transformation, and the symbolic and moral dimensions of the social landscape. By analytic reconstruction of the residents’ point(s) of view, of their ways of navigating and processing the physical, social, and symbolic landscape that made the North West, the chapter shows that places concentrate social and symbolic resources and real people of flesh and blood, who do not just touch the place but are also touched by it, who affectively and cognitively process the structure of the place as well as the structural position of the place in the city’s hierarchies.
