Взривяването на града: формиране на нова пространствена периферност в София, през призмата на някои урбанистични идеи на Анри Льофевр
Blowing Up the City: The Emergence of New Spatial Marginality through the Prism of Some Urbanist Ideas of Henri Lefebvre

Summary/Abstract: The article looks into the genesis of segregated places which do not fi t in the legal, cultural and spatial environment of the city. These are peculiar, contradictory and non-typical places inhabited by poor and vulnerable people who are generally rejected by their neighbors. On a small scale, the inhabitants are households or groups of households settled illegally in a neighborhood or unable to maintain their accommodations. On a larger scale, such places – especially when they grow to become large clusters of housing or even whole neighborhoods – are transformed into permanent ghettoes. The information used in the article was collected in 2012 by the social services of the city of Sofi a in an effort to identify children living in extreme poverty and substandard housing conditions. Based on this information, the article analyzes the patterns of generation of new pockets of poverty. The observations are generalized based on the understanding that the city is a complex spatial and temporal process. In the context of Lefebvre’s ideas and interpretations, we could call this process a production of new spaces which turn out to be spaces of inhomogeneity and inequality.

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