Towards a grammar of the city

The political economy of the urban grid

Authors

  • Renzo Dagnino UNC FAUD

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/siiu.12952

Abstract

The present paper is a theoretical approach that seeks to explore the political and economic logic in the production of the city from one of its basic constituent elements, the urban layout, as part of the grammar of the city. Building upon Aureli (2018), a brief reflection is proposed on the effects of the processes of subdivision and appropriation of territory by the grid according to a quantitative logic, and how this would be the basis of many phenomena that we see as emergent, both in the past and in the present. Thus, we seek to explore the process by which when we talk about the foundational base proposed by the urban grid, it would not entail a neutral support that enables various ways of inhabiting the territory, but a spatial apparatus that systematically imposes, both de jure and de facto, the quantitative logics of capital.

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Published

2025-01-26

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SIIU 2024 CORDOBA