Multidimensiones del límite y su renovación como concepto latente en la ciudad-contemporánea para un urbanismo crítico

Javiera Maira M.

doi:10.5354/0719-5427.2012.32506

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Boundaries as multidimensional expression and renewal as smoldering concept in the contemporary city for a critical urban planning

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Javiera Maira M. Universidad Austral de Chile, Instituto Arquitectura y Urbanismo

Vol. 18 No. 25 (2012): Acción crítica

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5427.2012.32506

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Abstract

This paper attempts a redefinition of the concept of boundary from a territorial-urban view. Redefining a boundary involves reviewing its definitions from different disciplinary fields in order to build a own definition that serves to interpret the city through its structures or systems of limits. In the contemporary city a twin expression of boundaries exist in urban morphology. On one hand, the processes of planning and metropolization and the explosion of urbanized society that is widespread and dispersed, and which has reverted the city to a state of incomprehensibility. On the other hand, there is the original idea of the division-limit, expressed in the social space where social conflict is an increasingly dominant pattern that strengthens the divisions of urban space.

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Boundaries , Critic Urban Planning Contemporary City , Exclusion , Urban Morphology , Social Space

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Maira M., J. (2014). Boundaries as multidimensional expression and renewal as smoldering concept in the contemporary city for a critical urban planning. Revista De Arquitectura, 18(25), Pág. 4–9. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5427.2012.32506