INVESTIGADORES
KOZAK Daniel Matias
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Urban Fragmentation: from metropolitan to architectural scale
Autor/es:
KOZAK, DANIEL
Lugar:
Delft, Holanda
Reunión:
Conferencia; 10th International Conference of the ALFA-IBIS Network; 2005
Institución organizadora:
Technische Universiteit Delft
Resumen:
Over the last three decades the concept of fragmentation has become increasingly recurrent in urban, social and cultural discourse. The way in which the term fragmentation is applied amongst these different discourses, however, has seldom been agreed upon or directly interrelated. Fragmentation is perhaps one of the most repeated words in discussions about postmodernism and in descriptions of current urban trends. It can have either a very positive or a very negative connotation depending on the context in which it is used. But in spite of its wide use in describing urban processes or settings, few works examine what underlies the different meanings associated with "urban fragmentation". The use of the same word in frequent yet dissimilar discourses is neither trivial nor incidental. As Roland Barthes argues in "Le degré zéro de l´écriture", "language is never innocent: words always carry attached a second memory that mysteriously persists in the midst of new meanings" (Barthes, [1953] 1968, p. 16). According to Henri Lefebvre the fact that certain terms become so persistent is in itself an indication of something. The recurrence of the term fragmentation indicates how significant the concept has become in the current period and therefore the importance of its study. In addition, the ambiguity, sometimes blurriness, and the existing gaps in comprehensive critical analyses also demand further research into this subject.