User:Alexanderstahle/Ambiterritory

Ambiterritory means a space where territorialities are contradictory or blurred. The concept was introduced 2007 by urban designer and researcher Alexander Ståhle at the School of Architecture in the paper "Exploring ambiterritory: no-man’s-land in post-war morphologies, confusing users and complicating maintenance" (See Proceedings, 6th International Space Syntax Symposium, İstanbul, 2007).

The framework presented in this paper must be considered as an initial theoretical sketch, far from being complete. Hypotheses and preliminary findings nonetheless indicate that what has been called ambiterritoriality ought to be something worth further investigation and that GIS can be a very useful tool. There is also a need for problematizing the debate on public space and margins. For example the concepts so commonly used in urban research and urban design practice “semi private” and “semi public”, which clearly lack distinction.