Architectural means of creating social boundaries around immigrants in the cities Cover Image

Architektoniczne środki tworzenia granic społecznych wokół imigrantów w miastach
Architectural means of creating social boundaries around immigrants in the cities

Author(s): Oskar Amiri
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Rural and urban sociology, Migration Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: architecture; immigrants; city

Summary/Abstract: Immigrants in the cities sometimes use architectural means to mark their presence, as well as a separate identity. These activities are often superficial, aesthetic, due to the asymmetry in the means of power in the urban space. On the other side there are the planners, having other plans towards enclaves, and the possibility to introduce them. Urban development is therefore a conflict of interest of different groups, and the result illustrates this dispute. It is a dispute which has a different outcome every time, just as the cultures coexisting in the cities are different, with different needs, identities and history.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 125-135
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish