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paraphrased by Georges Van Den Abbeele in his introduction to Miami Theory Collective,
ed., Community at Loose Ends, xiv.
55 The “modeling” or “patterning” of a social relation should not be confused with the idea of a
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“model” or “pattern” of a social relation. The latter implies the establishment of a social tem-
plate of sorts that can be copied and repeated. In specifically proposing a transitive action, I
mean to emphasize the simultaneous process of coming together and coming apart of social
relations. Thanks to Doug Ashford for discussions concerning the distinction between the
descriptive and projective modes of community-based art practice.
1 Kenneth Frampton, “Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resis-
tance,” in Hal Foster, ed., The Anti-Aesthetic (Port Townsend, Wash.: Bay Press, 1983), 26.
2 David Harvey, “From Space to Place and Back Again: Reflections on the Condition of
Postmodernity,” text for UCLA GSAUP Colloquium, May 13, 1991, as cited in Dolores Hayden,
The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995), 43.
3 A sampling of such criticism includes Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic
of Late Capitalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991); David Harvey, The Condition of
Postmodernity (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1990); Margaret Morse, “The Ontology of
Everyday Distraction: The Freeway, the Mall, and Television,” in Patricia Mellencamp, ed.,
Logics of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990),
193–221; Michael Sorkin, ed., Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End
of Public Space (New York: Noonday Press, 1992); Edward Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The
Reassertion of Space in Critical Theory (London: Verso Books, 1989); and M. Christine Boyer,
The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994).
For a feminist critique of some of these urban spatial theories, see the two essays by
Rosalyn Deutsche, “Men in Space” and “Boys Town,” in her Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996), 195–202, 203–244. For a specific critique of Michael Sorkin’s
position, see my “Imagining an Impossible World Picture,” in Stan Allen and Kyong Park, eds.,
Sites and Stations: Provisional Utopias (New York: Lusitania Press, 1995), 77–88.
4 Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Oxford: Blackwell,
1991), 52.
5 Lucy Lippard, The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicultural Society (New York: New