Nueva York Agonizante: crisis de identidad urbana

Abstract

This article is about recognizing the sick society, looking through which cities, our homes, project. We have self-appointed as civilization, we have built a shelter around us. But the ever-changing society has lost control. As a result of our reality, born the term non-place in parallel to place. The hypothesis defended in is that post-modernity is producer or generator of the non-place spaces that are not themselves anthropological places and ancient sites. They are not part of the foundation places, not places of memory. The cities are living organisms, asphalt breathing. Acknowledging them as living beings we can interpret the wear and tear. Congested cities tend to have ups and downs; their “getting sick” reveal us their symptoms. Same symptoms are caused by the fast metamorphosis of the modern lifestyle. Parallel to the loss of ethnic identity, we have the loss of urban identity. It dilutes the features of the anthropological diversity.