ABSTRACT
This chapter synthesises a critique of homogenisation and segregation as discussed in previous chapters of this book. A lively city is only possible when avoiding both too much freedom of movement and behaviour in architecture, and its reverse—excessive constraints on movement and behaviour.
Based on some considerations of freedom and constraint in capitalism, we ask whether capitalism tends to homogenise or segregate society and space. Certainly, its main impact on public space and public buildings can be described as either homogenisation or segregation. As such, Threshold Architecture is a tool for architectural resistance to homogenisation and segregation in society.
These ideas, although trivial when taken individually, are set in an evolutive interrelational system.
