Spatial capital as a tool for planning practice

Handbook of Gentrification Studies

“…Moreover mobility practices are not only at the core of the functioning of societies but will be facing fundamental changes (Dennis and Urry 2009): global warming and oil depletion will require the transition to a low-carbon mobility and the diffusion of the autonomous car will have a disruptive and uneven impact on the way mobility is organized and practised in cities. The concept of spatial capital could be used as an analytical grid but also as a tool for planning practice (Mace 2015). By deconstructing the mechanisms behind the uneven use of the spatial dimensions of society, it could help to analyze how households are/are not able to exploit proximity and to use transportation supply.…”

“…The same statement was made on spatial capital(Lévy 2000: 157).4 Critiques have, however, been raised on whether Bourdieu's work lacks a sufficient spatial dimension and whether spatial capital is an independent capital (see for exampleLévy 2014;Kaufmann et al 2015;Mace 2015).…”

Along the London Overground: Transport Improvements, Gentrification, and Symbolic Ownership along London's Trendiest Line

“…In the San Francisco case discussed by Centner, the expansion of spatial capital takes the form of “practices of privilege consumption,” such as “expensive residence, high‐end arts patronage, large nonpublic celebrations, usage of elite eating and drinking establishments.” According to Centner, the deployment of spatial capital in turn allows for the expansion of other forms of capital, which contribute to shaping place according to a given habitus. The need for adding a new form of capital to Bourdieu's theory has been questioned (Mace ), as spatial capital could be considered to amount to symbolic capital deployed in a field. Mace has nevertheless recognized the usefulness of the concept as a tool for planners to refer to a holistic process of change at work in the urban environment.…”

Territorio como medium: Discusión sobre rendimientos analíticos para las observaciones de la complejidad socio-espacial

“…Desde una visión más social, propuestas investigativas como las expuestas anteriormente son posibles también gracias a la diversidad de enfoques o perspectivas que sustentan sus premisas, las cuales buscan examinar con mayor consistencia los procesos sociales -en los territorios-que emergen de las condiciones estructurales de la sociedad (Adorno 2008). Estudios territoriales desde la dialéctica o el materialismo histórico (Holsrsen 2013;Guevara 2015), el funcionalismo (Oort, Burger & Raspe 2010;Vasanen 2012;Burger & Meijers 2012), el poscolonialismo o la biopolítica (Foucault 2006;Featherstone 2013;Connell 2013;Damjanov 2015), el capital cultural o espacial (Mace 2015;Wacquant 2017), el enfoque de derechos territoriales (Uitermark & Nicholls 2015; Angell 2016), tendrán ese objetivo. La apuesta estará, en otras palabras, en darle vitalidad al territorio (Tello 2000), desde un posicionamiento más social y crítico, sin restar relevancia a los procedimientos, instrumentos metodológicos o estándares de las ciencias duras.…”