Meaning of Secondspace | Babel Free

Definitions

Space as it is conceived, as opposed to space that is directly perceived. For example, the conception of a space based on a map or description.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Although there is an epistemology to the study of Firstspace, it is in Secondspace that epistemological discourse receives the greatest attention. In the long history of geographic thought, Secondspace approaches have been turned to most often when mainstream Firstspace approaches have become too rigidly materialist and "scientistic," as with the various critiques that emerged in response to the epistemological closures of positivist human geography.”

“Thus, “Wall Street” refers both to the street and to the businesses; metaphorically (and metaphor operates as a type of Secondspace) the name of the street has come to mean the type of investment activity.”

“The danger of Secondspace is that taken on its own it might be seen as a complete survey of spatial practices and representations; however, it is neither complete nor closed off.”

“Conceived space, secondspace, also described as representations of space, is the domain in which the meanings or ways of imagining space are identified and discursively set 'via control over knowledge, signs and codes' (1 996, p 67).”

“Whereas Soja, looking at the history of spatial thinking, assigns secondspace epistemologies to the subjective imaginaries of the creative artist, the artful architect, the utopian urbanist and the philosophical geographer, among others, when turning to entrepreneurial cities one thinks of the 'urban spin-doctoring' figuring so prominently in the literature of urban entrepreneurialism.”

“Tourists visit this place because of what it signifies, which is the secondspace.”

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