Foucault, the Other Spaces, and Human Behaviour

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was one of the major thinkers whose work offers a new approach to space and spatial thinking of our modern world. This article will explore his conceptualization of heterotopia and subsequent interpretations of it, with the ultimate purpose of examining its benefit and implication to the understandings of the complex nature of our contemporary urban spaces and their relations with human behavior.