For the students who have taught me THIRDSPACE Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places Edward W. Soja BLACKWELL(Copper WS 48 Mion inscinarco wt he Copp Baga ond Paes BE Seen Corte enact oA Biche Pbahe La tiki nde pure i penn ma ered Sorin ‘dana pooccpsng cag nerve Set Bes pin cae Sg tate ta ot tee ‘canton eingimpecafcntbessbaguen paces omy fCnres Caan iin Da Si Edw ‘hence / aad W oe iota era anne Let dene eas mpd Pk ang is trey Caggiano Semon be opener cto Yr Wae Fon Gat any Pr ow 1d, sow Coma Contents List of ustrations Acknowledgements IntroductiontitineraryfOverture PART! DISCOVERING THIRDSPACE 1 The Extraordinary Voyages of Henri Lefebvre ‘Origins Pathog Approximations ‘arale Enviuning Thandopace Through “The Aleph” “Thing ne Otherng Summarizing Again Before Moving On 3 Exploring the Spaces that Difference Makes: Notes on the Margin ‘Onthe Differences that Pstiodesnity Makes ‘On the Workings Poser (On Rati Sutetaes (On the Dianlerng of Diference Py SRERR yaee 83 864 contents Contents ww In Thirdspce with bel aks %6 Dating 218 Croan Marginlty ” Panapicon 28 The Margin asa Spec of Rac Difrence 109 Back athe Beginning 25 4 Increasing the Openness of Thirdspace 106 18 Inside Exopolis: Everyday Life in the Postmodern “ThesSpatal Feminist Crtigae ww World 23 \Gonkring Ciyspce The Feminist Critique Urania 108 Toto ve Gata Fooling We'te Not in Kansas Any Mare” 238, ‘The Dostmolere Spatial Fein Critic m Introducing Expt Be ‘he Prato Spaceaf Pm and Gography 49 Remagedin Lh A Lite Bt of audi cr ‘The Postoionial Critigae 25, ‘Scones fom Orange County ara a Lite Beyond cr “The Borderlands of Gloria Acasa w ‘Scene T: A Mathogyof Origins 25 ChcoismaiChiceismo: Rewer the Border i ‘Scene 2: leo Emplacement. 28 The Rewodigs of Gaya Speak i ‘Scene 3: The Diversions of Yrbo Linda Fo ‘The Iminatoe Geograpes of ward Sad Be Scene: UCT~A Comps by Desig 254 The The Spc of Ho Bb 3 Scene: Sting the pols in he City of Frne Bs ‘Scene 6: Rete and Wings = ‘5 Heterotapologies: Foucault and the Geohistory of ‘Scene 7:10 Mall World fer lt 28 Ooemen pat ‘Scene: Cites That re Doe of Themslee 266 ‘ASetond Discovery - Scene 9: On the ite Tact of he Hatt v0 Cronin Paths: Lfbore ond Foucalt i ‘Scone 10: Soomscapes: The Captasef Fenn Barone Reaity 74 Other Covanes fa Finale The Procession of Exopols vs In Thirdopce with Michel Foucoalt is ipl Hetertpe i 19 The Stimulus ofa Little Confusion: A Contemporary ‘The Prinples of Hoeretpaogy » ‘Comparison of Amsterdam ad tos Angeles 220 The Heterctoplegof Tiras paistraat 281 Hs ie O41Spuistrat 26 ‘ ee ee eee Postatript On the Views fom Aboveand Bele 310 EE ena a cA Postscript lA Preview of Postmetropolis 315 The Persistence of Historiism mm sty Loving Maps Not Eg a Select Bibliography za Haylee White Meets Hews Lefbore a 6 PARTI INSIDE AND OUTSIDE LOS ANGELES iss ar ” 7 Remembrances: A Heterotopology of the CitadelLA 186 ‘Ptured aan Exhistion rf The Preliary Discourse w Getting to By Mason's lace 388 Remembering the Basil: 1782-1989 1 ‘The Main Event Symbolicing the Civic Center i ‘reer ws cirapEn-ta 2 Cultural Crown a