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R E A D I N G S O C I O - S P A T I A L I N T E R P L A Y – C O N C L U D I N G R E F L E C T I O N SZooming outWhat follows is concluding reflections on my endeavours to describe andanalyze socio-architectural interplay, by way of two different part studies:- Theoretical investigations of analytic approaches to various aspectsof socio-architectural interplay, and discussions of how they can becombined (in part 1), and- Empirical investigations of socio-architectural patterns and theirinterrelatedness in three study areas (in part 2).In the following I will discuss my findings related to both of the two partstudies with a focus on the following issues:a) Explanatory shortcomings for understanding socio-architecturalinterplay by way of a structural-morphological approach forinvestigating the city as systems and structures of architecturalforms, and a discussion of methodological modifications that weremade and its most immediate analytical outcomes.b) Analytic contributions from challenging structural-morphologicalapproaches by the use of post-structural perspectives on differencesand complex interplay, and a discussion of shortcomings related toefforts of applying analytical theories directly on empirical material.c) How the inspiration from Lefebvre’s rhythm-analytic mode ofanalysis helped me to organize analyses of complex and dynamicinterrelations, and a discussion of limitations related to seeingrhythmanalysis as a method for empirical investigation.d) Architectural affect and the concept of social “space” as discussedby Lefebvre and Bourdieu, and reflections on explanatoryshortcomings in Bourdieu’s method for analyzing social spaceproduction in settings of urban socio-spatial practices.e) Explanatory contributions and limitations of Bourdieu’s concepthabitus and Lefebvre’s concept spaces of representation when itcomes to analyzing patterns in neighbourhood practices.f) End remarks317