Borders within border: Fragmentation, Disposition, Connection

Abstract

Book of abstract for the 2nd Urbanism at Borders Global Conference. Borders within border: Fragmentation, Disposition, Connection. Malaga 23-25 October 2019.

The multifaceted digital and economic divides are transmuting our understanding of the relationship between socio-economic orders and challenge the existence of the territoriality. The straight line that connects two points in the territory is at the same time the optimization of resources and the cause of the crisis of any pre-existent territorial syntaxis.1 To comprehend what befalls on the boundaries and peripheries of these straight lines we need a change of scale: to look for the-often hidden-relations between different fragments of the territory, the city, of its citizens....