Today we live in a world that daily erects walls on the most delicate borders between countries. Over the centuries, the walls have acquired a dual significance for the city. They make the city an island, creating a feeling of unity as well as security. The city and its citizens were one with the walls. But the walls are also the only contact that the city has with the outside world, thus representing the point of passage between inside and outside, between the foreigner and the citizen. This paper attempts to analyze the key role that the the walls must play in these border areas. The choice to erect a wall, if in the beginning it was born to propose an element of separation, can instead become a privileged element of connection with the outside.
Walls as a space of pacification
Del Sole, Francesco
2020-01-01
Abstract
Today we live in a world that daily erects walls on the most delicate borders between countries. Over the centuries, the walls have acquired a dual significance for the city. They make the city an island, creating a feeling of unity as well as security. The city and its citizens were one with the walls. But the walls are also the only contact that the city has with the outside world, thus representing the point of passage between inside and outside, between the foreigner and the citizen. This paper attempts to analyze the key role that the the walls must play in these border areas. The choice to erect a wall, if in the beginning it was born to propose an element of separation, can instead become a privileged element of connection with the outside.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
