Mind the Gap

How could engaging with indeterminate space redefine urban identity?

Suspended between defined environments, thresholds are transitional spaces where the absence of prescribed production invites unstable and reflexive interpretations. Characterized both as a physical demarcation and a conceptual catalyst for action, a threshold is a zone of exchange that can be manipulated to disrupt the increasingly hypermobile and impersonal patterns of use that shape everyday life. Utilizing Los Angeles streets as case studies of interactions between paths of circulation and nodes of destination, this proposal subverts current LA urban planning guidances by advocating for an extension of threshold ambiguity to break ordered rhythms of consumption, production, and disposal and invite elements of time and transgression that constitute LA identity.