[...]... (global) cultural economy of space , then, emphasizes a cultural negotiation and interpretation of newly-emerging spatial patterns, relationships and impacts; it constitutes more of a culture-centered approach of space rather than one exclusively centered on the uneven geography of costs and revenues The relevance of a cultural understanding and interpretation of the changing geographical schemata of. .. making and place loss, depopulation and cultural revitalization, landscape continuities and breaks and dismantles the notion of “traditional” landscapes, relegating them to the realm of nostalgia In the same line of thought, d’Hauteserre, in chapter 6, places her critical investigation of tropical landscapes of tourism in the context of the new symbolic economy of space, on the basis of the cultural construction... characteristics of the new cultural economy of space in the contemporary cultural landscape The primary objective of bringing together geographical perspectives from various subdisciplinary fields is to examine and discuss ways in which the complexities of this newly emerging cultural economy of space are applied to various sorts of landscapes, i.e landscapes of everyday life, landscapes of tourism and... rendering spaces alienating from human life and emptied of meaning previously held It has been argued that new spaces are produced that are empty of meaning and are thus nonspaces as they have not been constituted through human activity and its lent cultural meaning and value (Augé, 1995) Human action becomes marginalised in the production of meaning The significance of this space creation process is, arguably,... through all sorts of networking, it is argued that certain divisions are harder to sustain, leading to the creation of “third -space and landscapes of hybridity These arguments suggest the need to think of space and landscape in particular ways, such as in terms of flows and connections rather than of localized constructs and activities The vast proliferation of media plays a large role in the ways that... guises—often they represent a simple impression or a certain sense of landscape As one part of an urban landscape acquires a strong profile as front, for instance, inevitably a “back” appears, just as unused areas left over by planning, situated outside its field of action (Nielsen, 2002): “superfluous” landscapes of various sorts thus appear in urban contexts as the natural outcome of efforts towards LANDSCAPES. .. constraints of social hardship brought about by processes of the new cultural economy of space, at the interstices of different forms of institutional integration They develop spatial placing practices and movement performativity patterns which stand in complementary or ambivalent relationship to urban spatial organization strategies: a new type of hybrid cultural, as well as entrepreneurial, agents... (Johnston et al., 2000, p 891) Places and landscapes have always been organized on the basis of specific cultural economies of (time- )space The much debated novelty of most of these forces, factors and processes of change notwithstanding, contemporary change is occurring at a much more rapid pace than in the past It often materializes in new forms and shapes; it generates new mental, affective and symbolic... changing geographical schemata of changing socio-economic relations at variable geographical scales; e) the rapid and overarching exchange and communication of symbolic goods (f lows of money, ideas, information, images, etc), f ) through variable processes of networking and globalization where visual media predominate over textual media (Terkenli, 2002) PROCESSES OF THE NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY OF SPACE. .. towards an ongoing exploration of tensions over the uses and meanings of space and landscape; over the creation, dissolution and metamorphosis of space; and over the interweaving of landscape scales, boundaries, and characteristics REFERENCES Aitchison, C., MacLeod, N E., and Shaw, S J (2000) Leisure and tourism landscapes: social and cultural geographies London: Routledge Buttimer, A (1998) Landscape . processes of this new cultural economy of space with the aid of LANDSCAPES OF A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY 7 Such transformation forces invariably take on increasingly. a certain sense of landscape. As one part of an urban landscape acquires a strong profile as front, for instance, inevitably a “back” appears, just as