Alexandria, a neoliberal city: ultra-concentration, quiet encroachment, symbolic social division and franchises
The current map of the Egyptian Alexandria enables us to explain the neoliberal urban planning process. In the city occurs an intensive process of creative destruction in an environment that suffers the consequent problems of rising ultra-concentration, aggravated by a lack of a coherent state plann...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx:article/1734 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx/index.php/edu/article/view/1734 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | neoliberal city Alexandria quiet encroachment ultra-concentration neoliberal franchises Egypt urban planning ciudad neoliberal Alejandría invasión pausada ultraconcentración franquicias neoliberales Egipto urbanismo |
| Sumario: | The current map of the Egyptian Alexandria enables us to explain the neoliberal urban planning process. In the city occurs an intensive process of creative destruction in an environment that suffers the consequent problems of rising ultra-concentration, aggravated by a lack of a coherent state planning. Urban development without planning is visible in the “quiet encroachment” process that citizens develop in the streets and in the decadent condition of the public space. According to our research, Alexandrian urban planning development is made under a symbolic social division that opposes the cultural city to the elite consumerist city. Fast-food franchises are distinctive symbols of urban neoliberalism. |
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