ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates different manifestations of agency as they can be read through the practices of place-making and space-making on the divided island of Cyprus. The volatile recent past of Cyprus has fragmented the society and transformed the island into a frozen conflict revealing an ethno-nationalist geography. The authors argue that the agency situated between space-making and place-making determines what kind of space or place is produced. In the case of Cyprus, the divided island, it is particularly interesting to take a closer look at the buffer zone as it runs through Nicosia. Extending just outside the buffer zone, yet still within the city of Nicosia, the Nicosia Master Plan is about place-making where the visionary idea of a reunified Nicosia was transformed into a concrete walking plan. While the process of place-making becomes obvious with the use of buffer zone and NMP walk, the example of space-making can best be illustrated by example of Eleftheria Square located in Nicosia.
