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FORMATIVE NOTIONS of the
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK of NON-
PLACE
The term “non-place” was first cited by
Webber (1964: 79) in “Urban Place and the
Non-Place Urban Realm”. He used this term
in order to define a new era in which acces-
sibility is much more important than “propin-
quity”. This was seen as liberation from the
ties of traditional place.
Augé (1995: 77-78) emphasizes that
“if a
place can be defined as relational, historical
and concerned with identity, then the space
which cannot be defined as relational, or his-
torical, or concerned with identity will be a
non-place. …Place and non-place are rat-
her like opposed polarities: the first is never
completely erased, the second never totally
completed”. The properties that Augé deter-
mines in order to explain “non-place” can be
listed as follows:
•
Non-places are the spaces which a person
cannot settle a relationship with. It is the
space of alienation of the person both to
society and to himself.
•
An individual does not live in non-places
but just passes through it. They are devoted
to temporary activities. The time that the
individual stays at a non-place is limited
with the time needed for the activity that
should occur there. During this temporal
relation, the user is just a member of the
mass. He is not the “one” that he becomes
in his relation-ship with the place. This is
the reason why non-place cannot be inter-
nalized. The difference of the place and
non-place is that the individual does not
stay long enough at a non-place to grow
feelings for it.
•
There is a purpose, an object to be reali-
zed in non-place. Because of this there is
a contract between the non-place and the
individual and everything happens in the
scope of this contract.
•
The special activity
which is happening in
non-place is directed by written instructi-
ons. The individual is guided what to do,
where to go by those signs.
•
There is no need for human contact in a
non-place because everything has been
settled and programmed by specific sche-
dules. So, the individual might stay alone
in the crowd without any need to say a
word during his time in non-place. In this
respect it can be said that non-places are
the spaces of solitude.
•
Being a member of supermodern society,
anyone can find his way or subconsciously
know what to do in a non-place regardless
of his nationality, because non-place is a
nationless, global form. Non-place is the
space of anonymity. (Augé says that
“The