This chapter aims to establish the background discussion about whether architecture can, or cannot, shape social relations. On the one hand, it is common sense that different societies have shaped their cities based on their culture. On the other hand, mainstream architectural theory since the end of the golden age of modernism has dropped any attempt to change social relations through its practices. This chapter defines this paradox in terms of architectural disciplining and its subtle power to unconsciously shape subjects’ identities and behaviours, especially when they engage with space distractedly. Thus, the architecture of cities is both conditioned by social relations in the field and sets a dialectics between territory and subjects that frame an image about the world, place subjects in a position in this world, and bound how they can act in the world.