The ideology of public space and the new urban hygienism: Tactical urbanism in times of pandemic

This essay interprets the implementation of “tactical urbanism” as the latest step in the urban technocratic project aimed at destroying or at least subduing all actual urban life, thus as a form of urbicide. It presents the case of Barcelona, where in the spring of 2020 the “new municipalism” city...

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Autor: Delgado, Manuel, 1956-
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/228096
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/228096
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25304-1
Access Level:acceso embargado
Palabra clave:Espais públics
Social conflict
Política urbana
Public spaces
Conflictes socials
Urban policy
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spelling The ideology of public space and the new urban hygienism: Tactical urbanism in times of pandemicDelgado, Manuel, 1956-Espais públicsSocial conflictPolítica urbanaPublic spacesConflictes socialsUrban policyThis essay interprets the implementation of “tactical urbanism” as the latest step in the urban technocratic project aimed at destroying or at least subduing all actual urban life, thus as a form of urbicide. It presents the case of Barcelona, where in the spring of 2020 the “new municipalism” city council developed several interventions based on tactical urbanism, aiming at guaranteeing a prophylactic environment against the spread of COVID19. Though presented as temporary, these transformations ended up being permanent, combining with other urban policies such as the “superblocks” (supermanzanas), justified as countering climate change. The essay argues that these policies aimed at refurbishing outdoor urban spaces reiterate the hygienist vocation of early nineteenth-century urbanism, born as a “science” precisely in the Catalan capital. The growing influence of tactical urbanism is analyzed in the framework of a left-wing municipal government that attempts to develop a new orientation in city governance and that employs as a crucial discourse a rhetoric of public space as an ethical arena for good citizenship. Though this urbanism is exhibited as environmentally friendly, it is inscribed in a long tradition of policies aimed at sanitizing cities by removing their natural tendency at being spaces for conflict.SpringerCarrión Mena, FernandoCepeda Pico, Paulina2024info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/228096https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25304-1Llibres / Capítols de llibre (Antropologia Social)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del capítol de llibre publicat a: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-25304-1_8Capítol del llibre: Carrión Mena, Francisco i Cepeda Pico, Paulina (eds.), Urbicide. The Death of the City, Springer, 2023, ISBN, p. 128-144The Urban Book Series; 2365-7588(c) Delgado, Manuel et al., 2024info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/2280962026-05-27T06:46:51Z
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title The ideology of public space and the new urban hygienism: Tactical urbanism in times of pandemic
spellingShingle The ideology of public space and the new urban hygienism: Tactical urbanism in times of pandemic
Delgado, Manuel, 1956-
Espais públics
Social conflict
Política urbana
Public spaces
Conflictes socials
Urban policy
title_short The ideology of public space and the new urban hygienism: Tactical urbanism in times of pandemic
title_full The ideology of public space and the new urban hygienism: Tactical urbanism in times of pandemic
title_fullStr The ideology of public space and the new urban hygienism: Tactical urbanism in times of pandemic
title_full_unstemmed The ideology of public space and the new urban hygienism: Tactical urbanism in times of pandemic
title_sort The ideology of public space and the new urban hygienism: Tactical urbanism in times of pandemic
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Delgado, Manuel, 1956-
author Delgado, Manuel, 1956-
author_facet Delgado, Manuel, 1956-
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Carrión Mena, Fernando
Cepeda Pico, Paulina
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Espais públics
Social conflict
Política urbana
Public spaces
Conflictes socials
Urban policy
topic Espais públics
Social conflict
Política urbana
Public spaces
Conflictes socials
Urban policy
description This essay interprets the implementation of “tactical urbanism” as the latest step in the urban technocratic project aimed at destroying or at least subduing all actual urban life, thus as a form of urbicide. It presents the case of Barcelona, where in the spring of 2020 the “new municipalism” city council developed several interventions based on tactical urbanism, aiming at guaranteeing a prophylactic environment against the spread of COVID19. Though presented as temporary, these transformations ended up being permanent, combining with other urban policies such as the “superblocks” (supermanzanas), justified as countering climate change. The essay argues that these policies aimed at refurbishing outdoor urban spaces reiterate the hygienist vocation of early nineteenth-century urbanism, born as a “science” precisely in the Catalan capital. The growing influence of tactical urbanism is analyzed in the framework of a left-wing municipal government that attempts to develop a new orientation in city governance and that employs as a crucial discourse a rhetoric of public space as an ethical arena for good citizenship. Though this urbanism is exhibited as environmentally friendly, it is inscribed in a long tradition of policies aimed at sanitizing cities by removing their natural tendency at being spaces for conflict.
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Capítol del llibre: Carrión Mena, Francisco i Cepeda Pico, Paulina (eds.), Urbicide. The Death of the City, Springer, 2023, ISBN, p. 128-144
The Urban Book Series; 2365-7588
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