Pour une géographie des espaces poreux. Polymorphie et polysémie des communautés fermées

• Published in: Articulo Vol. 8
• Main Authors: Christophe Mager, Laurent Matthey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Journal of Urban Research 01.06.2012
• Subjects: border; closed spaces; gated communities; porosity
• ISSN: 1661-4941; 1661-4941
• DOI: 10.4000/articulo.2088

This eighth delivery of Articulo - Journal of Urban Research – which includes communications from the Colloquium titled "The gated communities, between residential innovation and fortification", organized in 2011 on the initiative of the Braillard Architects Foundation (Geneva), the Institute of Geography, University of Lausanne and the Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva - builds a deliberately paradoxical reading of (en)closed spaces. Could it be that these spaces – both reserved to togetherness as well as embedded in spatial envelopes from which they capture the most able resources to reduce their entropy – proceed from a logic calling for a theory of liminal porosities? The six monographs gathered here seek to work for a reading of the gated communities, that, while subjecting them to criticism, tends to go beyond the usual rejection they inspire to understand better and to discuss the uncertain urbanity they form. These contributions try especially to draw the possible ways of a rearticulation of these spaces able to make the border an element of porosity.