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Urban order is described as an unattainable ideal that ordering mechanisms aim for to
support capitalism's needs. These mechanisms also serve as tools for social
normalization, encouraging predictable behaviors and social roles. Normalization
infiltrates all aspects of society, shaping individuals through daily actions and power
structures, reflecting a project of domination grounded in specific power relations.
People in enclaves tend to accept enclave rules as normal and protective, often giving up
their rights in exchange for this perceived protection. However, there is a growing loss of
faith in societal promises, leading to acts of resistance. Normalization is a contested and
fragile project, especially during times of crisis. New forms of resistance involve
reshaping urban spaces to create new social connections and collective movements for
survival and change.
OBJECTIVES
Practices of this kind lead to collective experiences that reclaim the city as a
potentially liberating environment and reshape crucial questions that
characterize emancipatory politics. In this context, the city becomes not only the
setting but also the means to collectivelyexperiment with possible alternative
forms of social organization.Moreover, the sharing of space becomes a crucially
important stake, both as a means of experimenting and as one of the goals of such
experiments.
Common spaces are those spaces produced by people in their effort to establish a
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common world that houses, supports and expresses the community they
participate in. Therefore, common spaces should be distinguished from both
public spaces and private ones. Public spaces are primarily created by a specific
authority (local, regional or state), which controls them and establishes the rules
under which people may use them. Private spaces belong to and are controlled by
specific individuals or economic entities that have theright to establish the
conditions under which othersmay use them.
Thresholds, like doorways, separate inside from outside, but they also connect
these spaces. They control the act of passage, and rituals often mark them to
manage the significance of crossing.Thresholds symbolize the potential
connection between inside and outsideand may be associated with guardian
deities. Entering is seen as intrusion, and exiting as a form of ostracism.
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should involveexpanding sharing and collaboration.Dominant institutions can
either legitimize inequality or promote abstract equality by imposing general
rules and restrictions on behavior. Both types of institutions deal with differences
based on their classifications, with one focused on ensuring equality and the other
often imposing discrimination.
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