Proximity Rewritings

Abstract

The pandemic is a significant experience, which imposes a conceptual discontinuity in our ways of thinking, especially around the sense of urbanity as it has been defined in both Latin America and the West in the last two centuries. It is necessary to define new relationships, economies and ways of life, especially on the scale of proximity. The discourse around the project of the socio-spatial mixité could lose steam and there will probably be a tendency to redefine our systems of public spaces as security infrastructures. The term infrastructure indicates everything that allows the accumulation and redistribution of wealth, including both the physical systems and the devices to sustain social relations. Infrastructure, in its Marxist decline, is a dense socio-technical system and a device of socio-spatial figuration. Through it, power relations are expressed, conditions of privilege and vulnerability are identified.

Keywords: landscape design, urban design, delinking, ecology.