A Study on Representation Places in the Present-Day Culture

This paper focuses on some representation places as a sort of effort to understand and interpret the culture we live in. In fact, analysing any culture form requires concentrating on places where that culture reveals itself. Each place and each detail that penetrates into that place involve basic signs of social reality; that is why, all these should be seen not only as architectural or geographical expressions but also as multidimensional data and even as strong arguments of sociological enquiry, which stimulates interdisciplinary analysis. In this study, places are categorised and debated as places of production, places of consumption and places of time in order to portray the modern culture that represents both the age and life-style. In this sense, factories, offices, skyscrapers, sites, shopping malls, hospitals, airports, squares, museums and cemeteries are dealt with through the works of Bachelard, Baudrillard, Bauman, Botton, Lefebvre and Harvey