Spatial order operates by presenting space as neutral containers that can be filled

Evidence

In terms of most communication theories and common sense, a map is a scientific abstraction of reality. A map merely represents something which already exists objectively ‘there.’ In the history I have described, this relationship was reversed. A map anticipated spatial reality, not vice versa. In other words, a map was a model for, rather than a model of, what it purported to represent. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 661 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fixed spatial representations inevitably distort the fluid practical spaces they depict — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1608; Urbanites actively reinforce the spatial order rather than passively accept it; Space adds nothing to being but is continuously spatialized through the For-itself’s ekstatic temporalization — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 590 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Maps can construct territory rather than merely represent it #complicates (0.74) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 661
• Urbanites actively reinforce the spatial order rather than passively accept it #complicates (0.72)