Rival spatial strategies serve different relations between property and state power

Evidence

Colbert, on the other hand, had earlier tried to organize the French space to concentrate on Paris, the capital, because of his interest in supporting the absolute state and monarchical power. Both were concerned to enhance the fiscal basis of state power, but saw quite different spatial policies as necessary to meet that goal, because they envisaged quite different relations of power between private property and the state 2 What Enlightenment thinkers began to grapple with was the whole problem of ‘the production of space’ as a political and econ­ omic phenomenon. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1619

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Every state contains territorial sectors whose local relations of force differ internally — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 763; Local commons adapt and persist through contestation and shifting state relations — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 95; Demonstration location shifts with state control over public space — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1187

Broader Connections

• Every state contains territorial sectors whose local relations of force differ internally #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 763