Architecture Project
Architectural Design Studio
Construction of urban spaces was also process sorts of meanings been writing and rewriting. The urban physical forms we now perceived were formed by thousands of different social actors played with resources they could handle under different historical context. Modifying the physical spaces for public goods and reasons ‘easy to be used’, especially the insertion of urban infrastructures, absolutely were the major motifs for urban development and transforming. But when functions of some specific city became complicated as capitalist mode of production and consumption emerged within some coastal cities, reasons for space modification were no more just ‘easy to beused’.
Beside convenience causes, how the city itself could assemble and generate capitals and labors manifested to be the new agenda for urban development. According to that, the coastal cities along the Mediterranean all experienced apparent transformation within theirs urban forms in the following.