Displaced City
A Displaced City is an area within a city that is inhabited by people forced to live there due to social reasons. Park Hill is a housing development in Sheffield that was occupied by lower class people that did not have the choice to live there. They had all the amenities they could need on site so they were able to avoid the ‘real’ city of Sheffield. Nowa Huta, is another micro city of a town in Poland called Krakow. It originated by being a self-servicing town for the steel workers of the steel works and has remained a very separate area to the rest of Krakow. Park Hill and Nowa Huta are examples of a Displaced City. If you are a resident or a visitor, you do not feel you are experiencing the city, there are boundaries that constrain you.
Boundaries
Boundaries within cities can be physical or invisible. Physical boundaries take up space and can be passed by or moved through; wall, ditch, river, gate, highway, check point, refugee camp, buffer zone, new development, abandoned village, untouchable area, former wall. Invisible boundaries are spaces within cities that you are made aware by your feelings; interrupted, restricted, selected, filtered, intermittent, transitionary, isolated, mixed, unidirectional, continuous, discontinuous, displaced. These two boundaries can both evoke emotional responses.
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