GEOG 261 Lecture Notes - Elizabeth Grosz, Tim Cresswell, Michel De Certeau
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Panoptic view tends to be a very 1 dimensional view of the city. The city from within is very much alive and breathing, and to view it from an areal view misses out on this. The interrelationship between the triad shows how complex and multidimensional the city is. The body is the people, human beings the users of the city and the space. The tendency is to see the city without the people. Imagine vancouver without any people imagine the coffee shops. Earlier approaches from the city is seeing the city from above the planners the architects, the engineers. This is a contrast of an image of the city where the city is lived and shaped by human agency. The urban landscape is much more than its physical dimension. The concept is not just landscape the way it"s presented in materialistic forms of constructive material it"s more than a physical space.
