Between Fear and Admiration. Social and Spatial Ghettoes in an Old Industrial Region

• Authors: Szczepanski M.S. , Slezak-Tazbir W.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

More and more frequently a notion of space ghettoization is used to describe a phenomenon of dividing urban space into various enclaves of social life or socially isolated worlds. Ghettoization that we describe results from various social processes which are increasingly reflected in urban space. It results from differences in the economic standard of inhabitants of given areas (riches-poverty) There is one more criterion, very important if we view the case from a profoundly humanistic perspective - the criterion of social emotions accompanying urban space. This justifies the title of this article. Today's ghettoes may result from relatively automatic choices (lifestyles) and relatively objective processes - marginalization. We will try to make a general outline of the problems of ghettoization in a traditional industrial region, namely in Upper Silesia, related to diversification of income as well as the aesthetic and architectonic and urban criteria.

Keywords

EN

GHETTO; GHETTOIZATION (UPPER SILESIA REGION); MARGINALIZATION PROCESSES

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 3(159)
• Pages: 299-320
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szczepanski M.S.

author

Slezak-Tazbir W.

• S. Szczepanski, UNiwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, Instytut Socjologii, ul. Bankowa 11, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03947823