Scape
Financescape
Explore in the Atlas →Appadurai's term for the global landscape of capital — currency markets, national stock exchanges and commodity speculation — through which megamonies move at dizzying speed and with little regard for national borders. The financescape names the disposition of global capital that finances, accelerates and abandons the production of buildings and cities, making real estate and infrastructure expressions of mobile, abstract flows of money.
Exchange Production Infrastructure
Details
- Flow
- Financescape
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Digital model
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- relates to Space of Flows
Referenced by
- Arjun Appadurai proposed
Sources
- n.d..
- n.d..
- Appadurai, Arjun. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1–24, 1990.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Financescape." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/scape/financescape/. Accessed July 17, 2026.