Surveillance and its role with Architecture

Surveillance has been an integral part in history of society and architecture. It has always been used as a symbol for power, as a controlling method or an attempt for manifesting safety especially in urban areas. This is the reason why the issue has become more complex and the scope has been expanded. Thus, it entwines power, gender, mistrust, fear and control. Surveillance came in 18^th century along with architecture and transparency and panoptic on. Surveillance not only monitors a body moving in space rather it affects the mind of the person. When one is constantly seen be any unknown or invisible power tries to conform to the rules of the society as expected by them. it is forcing the mind and the soul so that the body behaves in a good way. Always the soul suffers in spite of the fact that the body is imprisoned.
In fact there is also a corollary among surveillance and CCTV’s. There has been a rapid growth in the density of surveillance due to the fear in the metro cities. However, in public place cameras do surveil because one cannot expect any sort of privacy there. There has been a significant effect and the consequences of the camera due to the wide increase in surveillance in urban areas. Three types of spaces have been observed while studying the changing urban space. Different Spaces can be space as a container or power space or emotional space.
In describing space as a container, surveillance is both transparent and opaque. Under surveillance things have become visible much more whereas sources have become more opaque that produces uncertainty for the public. Power surveillance includes the study of video surveillance affecting interaction with power. Gender also plays an important role as most of the times women are under surveillance while men are beneath a camera which implies that if surveillance done anonymously can lead to negativity on the identity. It implies about the identity recognized by the genders. It also issues the use of camera as a device for harassment. The emotional effects of surveillance can be understood by the emotional space. The goal of it is to provide a safe urban nature and a security.
The technology of surveillance offers a view towards creation; transparency and slippage of boundaries that get set while the coverage or end of the coverage of the camera and implies a change in social contacts. Boundaries do not remain definite when events are transferred from a location to a remote area using a camera. Thus boundaries are indefinite and transparent leading to the expansion of site. Along with the transparency, surveillance also has interactions with the experiences and the space. Surveillance when grouped with architecture when flattens space, influences the power relations, objectifies people and affects the people emotionally becomes much more interesting and can be seen with ambivalence. Thus, surveillance had a lot of growth along with architecture and the social perspectives and can be utilized in various ways.