Heterotopia and emergent spots of local city text
The city involves a variety of semiotic relations and processes at different levels and by various agents. Urban space is significant through its relations with cultural models and ways of living. In contrast to the force of diversification by the variety of subjects, actions and interpretations, urban planning discourse and practices tend to prescribe a unified meaning. Planning itself is a negotiation of societal ideals, conceptual-textual development of utopia. The first limited applications of new visions in urban space can become temporary heterotopia due to being limited and not fully integrated realizations of utopian visions. The analysis of recent urban planning processes in Tartu, Estonia, shows a trend towards unification resulting in coherent textualization of the city on the basis of a unitary centralized city-model that is exemplified in a monumentalizing redesign of a central bridge with its heterotopic aspect