El presente artículo desarrolla una serie de hipótesis urbanístico-sociológicas sobre la relación con el espacio público de los ex-vecinos de un barrio de la periferia de París, demolido en el marco del Plan Nacional de Renovación Urbana. Aquejado de problemas de vandalismo e inseguridad ciudadana, un trabajo de campo realizado por la Universidad París 8 permitirá obtener datos sobre los procesos que desembocaron en su “ghetización”. El modelo territorial, la implantación urbanística y la movilidad dentro del parque social francés facilitaran la aparición de dinámicas de control del espacio. Entre la apropiación de las partes comunes de la “Cité”, y la reclusión en sus propias viviendas, los testimonios de los vecinos ilustran dos caras de un mismo fenómeno: la subversión del espacio público por un espacio propio, aquel que seguirá las reglas de la comunidad imperante.
This paper combines historical and contemporary sources to examine ‘epidemic urban planning’ from the first decades of the 20th century through to the present day. It considers how infamous early 20th-century epidemics triggered the development of several urban regulations that profoundly shaped the city’s future. To reduce the risk of contagion in bourgeois space, the city began displacing and spatially segregating the urban poor, leading to deprived neighbourhoods in the city’s suburbs. The social and urban structure of these deprived, ‘vulnerable’ neighbourhoods remains to this day. Madrid was also greatly impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, and the initial distribution of COVID geographies seemed to reflect these historical legacies. Epidemic-influenced segregation kept wealthy neighbourhoods relatively safe during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, concentrating the disease in poorer areas.
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