In between and besides official plan-making, ordinary people produce more quantity and variety of spaces than the authorities and professionals. They both adapt to and adjust extant spaces for their daily activities and cultural practices, thus producing lived spaces out of abstract space. Yet we know very little about these basic space-making processes. This article aims to acknowledge and `understand' the processes of familiarizing space employed by ordinary people to create milieus that can support their everyday activities and cultural practices. Relying on subjects' vantage points of critique, it examines the space-making processes of four social actors in late 19th-century Colombo, then Ceylon, now Sri Lanka.
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