The power of scenes
This article proposes a general theory of urban scenes. Urban scenes are positioned here as mutidimensional vectors of meanings embedded into concrete local practices. The article presents methods of empirical measure of urban scenes, and also wants to show how some of the latter provide a suitable environment for new social movements (NSM). In spite of the universalist and cosmopolitanism dimensions of NSM, their dynamics and supports are closely rooted in the specific qualities of local contexts.