Die Gestaltung städtischer Abschließung im 21. Jahrhundert
This paper draws on my books <i>Urban Outcasts</i> and <i>Punishing the Poor</i>, on the transformation of the forms and policy management of marginality in advanced society, to probe the use of space as a medium for social closure and control in the city. This first part ske...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | http://www.geogr-helv.net/69/89/2014/gh-69-89-2014.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper draws on my books <i>Urban Outcasts</i> and
<i>Punishing the Poor</i>, on the transformation of the forms and
policy management of marginality in advanced society, to probe the use of
space as a medium for social closure and control in the city. This first
part sketches a framework for the (comparative) analysis of <i>sociospatial seclusion</i>, the process
whereby particular social categories and activities are corralled and
isolated in a reserved and restricted quadrant of physical and social space.
The second part applies this schema to present a compressed analysis of the
divergent trajectories of the black American ghetto and the French
working-class borough in the post-Fordist age anchored by the three
spatially inflected concepts of ghetto, hyperghetto and anti-ghetto. It
concludes by stressing the role of the state in directing processes of
seclusion at the top and at the bottom of the urban order, along a gradient
from constraint to choice. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |