Wall Street bounded and unbinding: the spatial as a multifocal lens in design studies

Thirty-fi ve years after de Certeau’s view of New York from above, the coincidatio oppositorum (coincidence of opposites) that he encountered from the top of the WTC, “the immobilized” and “gigantic mass” on the one hand, and a “universe that is constantly exploding,” on the other, remains the reality of the Wall Street area, with its totality and its cracks.