Open AccessRetrouver les frontières urbaines : la dialectique de l'être et du lieu
Author(s) -
Gary F. Greif,
Marcelo Cruz
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
cybergeo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.16
H-Index - 16
ISSN - 1278-3366
DOI - 10.4000/cybergeo.1185
Subject(s) - bridge (graph theory) , space (punctuation) , humanities , polarity (international relations) , sociology , political science , philosophy , medicine , linguistics , genetics , biology , cell
Drawing upon the self psychology of Heinz Kohut, this paper attempts to bridge the polarity between the built environment of the city experienced as a place which supports human aspiration and ideals, and the city experienced as a space which expresses and implements humanly debilitating economic and social forces. Through community functions which resist the forces of experienced space, individuals are reconstituted at the core of self experience while transforming space and reconstituting place in the process