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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 Sassociates: Just as often as an issue of strangers taking over an area thequestion at stake is, as many informants describe it, that more and morepeople that are more or less like oneself and share many of one’s owndispositions, move into the neighbourhood. Thus increasing accumulation ofpeople of the same sort as oneself is by many informants felt to threaten theideal mixture of different people and cultural aspirations that was theoccasion for moving into the neighbourhood. Nobody says they want to livein a ghetto: neither an ethnic one nor, as in the example above, a ghettoconsisting of multiplicity seeking urban adventurers of ethnic Norwegianswith higher education.The just mentioned examples illustrate various kinds and degrees ofterritorial tensions between patterns of social space development set inconcrete socio-spatial environments. It is also worth to notice that thepatterns of strategies that the individual tactics relate to, have developed andare experienced in many different ways and at different levels.All the abovementioned examples illustrate that one by living in andidentifying with a neighbourhood, and by over time relating issues of identityproduction and lifestyle to a neighbourhood, to a certain extent gets exposedto the other inhabitants living in the same territory. The dispositions of thelatter play as just an important part in forming the image of a neighbourhoodas one’s own dispositions and the dispositions of those one would like toassociate with. Social qualities and ways of interacting and associating in aneighbourhood are related to a broad range of issues of territoriality, inwhich widespread ideas about an ideal mix of people and activities,predictability and surprises, likeminded people and strangers, often seemdifficult to bring into a state of equilibrium in the real world of everydayneighbourhood practices. The exposure to such territorial issues, to othersand others’ dispositions, makes relating to a notion of neighbourhoodidentity by various place-consuming and place-producing neighbourhoodpractices more open to elements of other social mechanisms than the kinds ofcultural consumption Bourdieu studied. This represents an essentialexplanatory limitation related to applying Bourdieu’s model of social spaceproduction on analyses on urban socio-spatial practices in general andneighbourhood practices in particular.e) Analyzed patterns vs Habitus vs. Spaces of representation 424A central issue both for Bourdieu and Lefebvre, though in slightly differentways, is that socio-spatial patterns of practices – or, to be more precise,people’s experiences of such practices – form people’s mental horizons of424 In the English translation of Production of Space Donald Nicholson-Smith translates Lefebvre’s conceptEspaces de representation into Representational spaces. As accounted for in chapter 1, I’ve in this PhD-thesisfound it more appropriate to use my own translation of the concept: Spaces of representation.339