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While the urban interstice is often considered as a “space of possibilities,” even as a space of “politics” and “resistance,” it could also arguably be transformed into a “micro-space of power”. This article aims to turn this dialectic on its head, to examine and embark on a spatial and urban critique of the city as a normed, normalized, and normalizing living environment. The interstice is understood here as a discrete intervention of urban design on the inhabited territory, potentially allowing for the control, regulation, and discipline of behaviors and conducts within the public space.