Quotes by : Michel de Certeau

To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place,....

It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners',....

Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated....

Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.

The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants.....

Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of....

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition....

To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The....

When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself....

They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic....

what does travel ultimately produce if it is not, by a sort of reversal, 'an exploration of the deserted....