ABSTRACT
Th e street is a transitory location, a space that generally isn’t invested with the same level of meaning that those places connected by the street-places like the home, school or shopping mall-fi nd themselves coming to assume. We move through the street, and by rarely stopping to acknowledge the signifi cance these spaces hold as determiners of our physical and symbolic social contexts, we become largely oblivious to the eff ects they exert and the ways they mediate aspects of our contemporary landscapes and lifestyles. While on the street, we don’t think twice about seeing other people in abundance, expressions of our oil-powered transport networks, or signage telling us everything from which side of the road to drive on to which brand of cola is the better one. Th is is what streets do-they give us access to collective, contemporary culture, but in ways that seem ordinary, or everyday.
