The Society of Captive: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison.
"Lines of division cut through modern cities. These are not simply questions of marks on maps, nor can we think of features such as roads or bridges merely as useful objects. Apparently neutral divisions in space, the mundane geography of walls, edges and outskirts, can have effects beyond their basic function."
Fran Tonkiss (Space, The City & Social Theory)
“…the image of the city can arise from changes in perception, as well as from physical alterations. The skyline of a city traces the visual signature of its identity. It offers an immediate reading of its ambition, modernity and novelty through which economic, social and aesthetic meanings are signified. Accordingly, urban imaginaries are constituted by visual narratives – summary readings of history and futurity encoded in the skyline, both as its is and how it might be.”
David Parker & Paul Long
‘The Mistakes of the Past? Visual Narratives of Urban Decline and Regeneration’