Urban Poverty and civic Tradition of Acceptance

Cities are haunted by people living without any form of civil rights, welfare, health, social relations: homeless, nomads, “illegal” immigrants, walkers and wanderers, refugees and stateless, beggars, amputees in wars having place far from the safe Europe. Their existence generates mistrust and susp...

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Main Author:	Ilaria Agostini
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Bologna 2018-07-01
Series:	In_Bo
Subjects:	Città Accoglienza Disuguaglianze sociali Securitarismo Architettura ospedaliera medievale
Online Access:	https://in_bo.unibo.it/article/view/7871

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spelling	doaj-3dd1a5fb0edb4009b17a61c09d011bd42020-11-24T22:16:31ZengUniversity of BolognaIn_Bo2036-16022018-07-0181262110.6092/issn.2036-1602/78717010Urban Poverty and civic Tradition of AcceptanceIlaria Agostini0Università "La Sapienza"Cities are haunted by people living without any form of civil rights, welfare, health, social relations: homeless, nomads, “illegal” immigrants, walkers and wanderers, refugees and stateless, beggars, amputees in wars having place far from the safe Europe. Their existence generates mistrust and suspicion on one hand, challenging on the other the civil conscience of the contemporary society. It is a sort of memento mori: an incumbent mourning for the possible loss of citizen status. The historic city has proved capable of hosting marginalisation and deviance, through institutions or architectural devices. Does the neoliberal city, generating social inequalities and managed in the name of security, still has room for such unsettled and unsettling presences? Can it treat them only as “waste” or, vice versa, grant them the dignity of a different dwelling within a universal coexistence?https://in_bo.unibo.it/article/view/7871CittàAccoglienzaDisuguaglianze socialiSecuritarismoArchitettura ospedaliera medievale
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description	Cities are haunted by people living without any form of civil rights, welfare, health, social relations: homeless, nomads, “illegal” immigrants, walkers and wanderers, refugees and stateless, beggars, amputees in wars having place far from the safe Europe. Their existence generates mistrust and suspicion on one hand, challenging on the other the civil conscience of the contemporary society. It is a sort of memento mori: an incumbent mourning for the possible loss of citizen status. The historic city has proved capable of hosting marginalisation and deviance, through institutions or architectural devices. Does the neoliberal city, generating social inequalities and managed in the name of security, still has room for such unsettled and unsettling presences? Can it treat them only as “waste” or, vice versa, grant them the dignity of a different dwelling within a universal coexistence?
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Urban Poverty and civic Tradition of Acceptance

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