When conceptually comparing early 19th century design to current historical momentum, many parallels can be traced in regard to the ideas and methods of “staging the ground for uncertainty” as well as the rising importance of the expert when faced with immediate threats—with the obvious differences that the role of the engineer is (re)claimed by the urban designer and more (or other) forms of life are incorporated into what Foucault would call mechanisms of security. However, when analyzing more fundamentally the socio-spatial construction of technology, a clear difference between earlier engineering and today’s design is taking shape. Whereas the spatial project, or how one can shape society by the intermediary of a well-thought-out transformation of the territory through infrastructure, was implicit in the engineers’ and politicians’ practice and theory, the relationship between technology and space is again explicit. Current design is characterized by an explicit, inclusive urban strategy, formulating coherent spatial schemes of infrastructure and urbanization. The spatial and not only infrastructure policy an sich has become a full-fledged point of departure. However, in contrast to this prominent relationship between space and technology, “grand ideas” about society with related spatial ideologies are less explicit in contemporary practice.