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Modern companies are offering almost everything a worker "could ask for". From espresso bars and free food in the componies own cafeteria to on- site care for children, state of the art health care (i remember working for a compony offering massage service in the breaks), outdoor facilities and concierge services.
The messaege and the function ist quite obvious: you have no excuse to go home! we will take care of you and your needs, cause we need you to be here working!
Even if the compony can not afford the own service structures a lot of modern componies are moving to urban places that offer exactly the surrounding for the needed services and facilities like coffee shops, groceries, restaurants, gyms etc..

"…the long trajectory of modern capitalism has involved the relentless extension of the working day across time and space – first through electricity and the light and now via the personal computer, the mobiel phone and the internet."(p. 122, the irse of the creative class, richard florida).
things were changing from being technaly able to produce to being more efficient of organizing the production (globilisation f. expl.).focus on the research, science, think tanks etc. factories were built to produce more knowledge to produce more products. generaly spoken this just means that more space was needed to produce.
Incontrast to the idea that wired and wireless information age has made location and community irrelevant, a lot of people say that these are still highly important. Location seems to get more important then income. People insist of stimulating environments.
Many will not consider taking jobs in certain cities or regions when the only would offer a challenge as a job career.
Working and living returns to "home", the big morphing. Offices are offering a cosy living space or people work from home.home is getting more difficult to define as work space is.
Time and space define comunication systems.
Flexible working schedules or flexible working spaces make devices like the cel phone or the internet so important. This is now, the big change in society that defines the role of cyber space and logicaly the change of society (this is important will lead to a new aspect of space beingh too big for this project and so will "only" be mentioned).

- “Every human being is creative in some way and creativity can not be handed down and it can not be owned in the traditional sense. It defies gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and outward experience.”
- Agriculture, trade markets, industry, organizations to the mobile decade:
Great economic shifts bring massive tensions and disruptions. The shift from an agricultural to a capitalist industrial economy generated incredible disruption and social turmoil- huge flows of people from farm to the factory, from the rural hinterlands to great urban centers and brought social problems ranging from workplace injury to crime, congestion and disease. The first great shift in human society was the organized agriculture. An acre of cultivated cropland gave more food than an acre of wilderness. It was much more reliable then hunting, also the idea of adding something to nature was revolutionary, compared by hunting and therefore taking away from nature (the first time in human history that artificial trash was produced). Animals were not only eaten but also their “products” like milk, eggs etc. were taken into account. The agriculture transformation let dramatically to changes in everyday life and in society as well. Life was attuned to the daily tending of crops and livestocks, and to the seasonal activities of sowing and harvesting and animal breading. Archaeological evidence shows that as the practice of agriculture spread people gradually become more densely settled into villages and communities; the first city-state appeared with urban administrative hubs surrounded by farmland. New class structures and power relations emerged, and new occupations proliferated and flourished, helping to set in motion yet another period of transition and advances. During that time space became it first main role in the human history even though the problem of too less space these days did not exist.
With the idea of producing out of natural resources mankind stepped into the next important era, where space became more important.
New forms of specializations appeared, productions – the making of tools, textiles, clothes and household goods. Space was not only needed and used to produce artificial objects but also trade them later on the first market places. To offer these “products” to as many people as possible the idea of artificial towns or cities were attracting and a logical consequence. Farm families were growing their own food and made their own clothes, but specialized trade people living in cities had to buy goods other then their own. Cities became centers of specialization on diverse interaction. From here the step into the modern factory was probably one of the most important influences on societies, their work- and living places.
The basic idea of a factory is to bring large numbers of workers together with all their various tools, materials and skills in one place , with a high degree of division of labor, to produce efficiently. It was a method for pulling together all the factors of production. “the factory system”, writes the historian Marc Demorest ” offered the craft producer a release from the most culturally and emotionally damaging eventuality of the nineteenth century: moving from the house to get to work.” (Marc Demorest, “The Firm And The Guild: On The Future Of Knowledge Work And Information Technology”, April 1995.
With scientific and technological knowledge machineries, steam engines and the electric generator were invented which made the work even more efficient. This new system of working changed once again the structure of society, rhythms and patterns of everyday life. For the first time, large numbers of people worked in different locations from where they lived. Whereas the experience of time had been more or less natural in previous ages, the factory workday was organized into distinct periods of time or “working hours”.
Cities not only grew, but were subdivided into new sorts of districts. With building huge factories older buildings or spaces disappeared and people could observe of how also transportation systems conquered the cities.

- visual memories of history or politcal moments or economical structures can define the image or the character of a city
- the importance of graffitis or other expressions of the habitants
- social importance of places like soccer stadiums, squares (tango), bars etc.
- cities are functional
- new forms of comunications have to face bigger spaces of the city
- the wish to create a clear image of the city (my doubts) or to visualize the character of an existing image (traditions) and the aceptance of "the new"