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 …showed first 75 words of 1730 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1730 total…art, aesthetics, the poor and homeless are brought together in urban space through struggles for space, meanings and uses of space breaching scale, assertion of identity and borders. Recognition of the changing nature of space and scale within the New York urban environment is meaningful and political and warrants consideration as such. Space can be used for inclusion or constraint, liberation or oppression and can be expressed through expressions and understandings of art and aesthetics.