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Art, aesthetics, the poor and homeless in urban space.

The Smith article “Homeless/global; scaling places” is about space and scale. These are things essential to every person in the world as we all physically inhabit and utilise spaces. Smith speaks of space at scales of body, home, community, urban, regional, national and global. He suggests space as meaningfully separate and opposed to time based meaning, which has long been recognised as meaningful and political. Smith claims that space has been belittled and neglected and that language sufficient to express the changing and dynamic empowered natures of space are insufficient and stagnating rather than liberating and appropriate.

Smith in his article relates examples of homelessness and space in the New York urban environment through the Tompkins square park riots (around late 1980’s) and the Homeless Vehicle designed by Krzytof Wodiczko. These examples encompass modification, re-claiming, representation and creation of space and serve to bring together art, aesthetics, the poor and homeless in urban space.

Scale as well as space is produced in socially constructed ways and involves levels of body, community, region, and nation. Smith suggests four aspects the social interconnectedness of scales to be;

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