Urban coexistence and the ethics of otherness

Authors

  • Andréa Melo Lins Storch UNICAP, Curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo; Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Brasil
  • Norma Gonçalves Lacerda UFPE, Programa de PÓS Graduação em Desenvolvimento Urbano-MDU; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/siiu.12691

Abstract

The article defends that the principles of hospitality, care and responsibility must support the urban interventions to stimulate the coexistence among different people. The article aims to show that, even in a world dominated with individualistic behavior, the condition of human vulnerability has a potential to act on those principles while unfolding in urban spatial organization. It was necessary to relate the ethics of alterity, as mediator of those principles, with certain spatial arrangements. This revealed to us that urbanism responds  to coexistence when it promotes face to face between differentiated subjects, even challenging its applicability in an adverse political context.


Keywords: urban coexistence, ethics, otherness

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Published

2024-03-06

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SIIU2023_RECIFE