ABSTRACT
With the spatial turn in the cultural and social sciences that began in the late 1980s, and also with the succeeding revival of an architectural and theoretical discourse on space, spaces, and spatiality around the turn of the millennium, a disciplinary differentiation of conceptual terminology has become evident. With regard to architecture, this chapter presupposes a spatial understanding that attributes to architectural space a phenomenal independence within the differentiated spatiality of the lifeworld, and alongside other natural, cultural, and sociological conceptions of space. The oft-misunderstood paradigm shift toward the fourth dimension of space-time, adopted so enthusiastically by modernists, guided architecture toward new interpretive strategies in both praxis and theory. With regard to the inner spatiality of the city, it is worth remarking here that we have at our disposal both a traditional theoretical discourse and a differentiated typology of spaces, one that has generated an encyclopedic collection of references for urban design.
