Loitering Glossary/Non-places

The non-places of our everyday life are places of anonymity, circulation, communication and consumption, opposite from the home. An intimate space such as home is structured according to human features, while non-places are made of instructions in which the individual loses themself (and their relation to the place). In non-places the only identity you are offered as a passerby is a consumer one, and you are stripped of all other identity signifiers and information. A place cannot become a non-place no matter how much it has been annihilated, since it will still bear a history. Commemorative places are full or history, and as such, cannot take on the anonymity and lack of identity a non-place has.