As Henri Lefebvre famously argued, capitalism and commodification organize the way our everyday lives are structured in subtle but significant ways. From office layouts to city planning, spatial arrangements often reflect and materialize the power dynamics of a society. This topic asks you to make an argument about how the organization of space creates and maintains social hierarchies. In EITHER “Bartleby” OR War of Streets and Houses, how do descriptions (or illustrations) of space help the reader understand the social inequities at play in the text? How do the texts and their characters challenge these inequities through their use (and misuse) of space?