This module explores how human activity can create or change places that can be considered to be “impossible”. It may be that the physical or natural environment cannot supply new demands of uncontrolled urban development. It could be that human innovation has created the means to enable and make possible new development in places unthinkable before. The activities of people themselves may make a place untenable for future generations or to continue to live in safely. Sometimes access to a place is made ‘impossible”, quite deliberately, so that a particular activity or activities can take place away from the public gaze or to be exclusive to one particular group of people.
