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For the purposes of aiding clarification and demonstrating the different areas of research that explore the notions of public space and methods of reading it, the following chapter will be divided into three sections. The first of these sections, ‘Visualising the Graphical-Urban Context’, examines the research and studies that have investigated and suggested that space is a legible quantity that can be read and interpreted in different manners. The next section, ‘Urban Space is Sociologically Constructed’, explores the notion of urban space as a medium through which social, cultural, and political groups are able to connect, express and communicate their identity’s within a hegemonic public realm. Finally, ‘The Technological Determination of Urban Space’ counters the views of the previous section, arguing that modern urban spaces are by-products of the technical age and are therefore subordinate to the needs and requirements of technology and its proliferation.