Abstract:
staged on the urban scene. The increase of migration toward metropolitan areas combined with weak public authority entails disintegration of urban social life and encapsulation of zones of social homogeneity – socially intransitive and non-transparent for the anonymous citizen; gated or ghetto communities institutionalized against rather than within the city. From this perspective the radical other of inequality appears to be fragmentation instead of equality, since fragmentation means diminishing of these spaces into which social differences become mutually visible, searching mutual recognition, constituting a correlative matrix of inequality and struggling for equality.
