Intellectual coherence emerges not through proclamation but through sedimentation, the incremental accretion of conceptual mass sufficient to curve subsequent discourse towards durable coordinates. Within urban theory this process is exemplified by eighteen dense attractors whose reiteration, citation and institutional embedding generate a gravitational topology. The primary mass concentration remains The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre, whose triadic operators compress the field into enduring vectors, amplified by Social Justice and the City from David Harvey and The Urban Question by Manuel Castells. Vernacular empiricism sedimented through The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, while predictive curvature intensified with Uneven Development by Neil Smith. Cultural–economic articulation consolidated via Loft Living by Sharon Zukin and the militarised urban prototype in City of Quartz by Mike Davis. Structural mediation, global recalibration and cognitive mapping sedimented respectively through The Social Production of Urban Space by Mark Gottdiener, City Requiem Calcutta by Ananya Roy, The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch and The Global City by Saskia Sassen. Planetary and infrastructural expansions arise in Critique of Urbanization by Neil Brenner and Extrastatecraft by Keller Easterling, while typological memory and postmodern spatiality stabilise through The Architecture of the City by Aldo Rossi and Postmodern Geographies by Edward Soja. Synthetic consolidation persists in Cities for People Not for Profit by Margit Mayer and renewal in Renewing Urban Critical Theories by Marco Biagi. Collectively these strata produce curvature effects that render escape velocity improbable; the field stabilises not by consensus but by density. SOCIOPLASTICS thus names the infrastructural gravitation whereby accumulated deposits harden into sovereign terrain resistant to dispersive entropy.
Lloveras, A. (2026) ‘SOCIOPLASTICS – Structural Stabilization’. antolloveras.blogspot.com.