Change, Conflict, and Resistance: Information Technologies, Urban Segregation and the Problem of Lived Space

This paper initiates with a debate on the urban polarization and segregation, governed with consumption-driven culture fueled by information technologies and advanced transportation. Following the transformations of public spaces into “private public spaces”, and the phenomena of the malls as a case, from a Lefebvrian perspective, the main argument of the paper is that, while having “change”, “conflict”, and “resistance” in its very nature, if the “lived space” experiences in these terms can exist in these “private public spaces”? The discussion will end with a suggestion stating that, the information technologies have great potentials to promote Lefebvrian “lived space” experiences and offer new fields for social interactions as well as possibility for “change”, “conflict”, and “resistance”.