The prison in the city
Planning and degradation. Buenos Aires 1877-1927
Keywords:
planification, urbanism, prisonAbstract
This paper deals with the processes of urban constitution of the city of Buenos Aires in relation to the spaces of confinement and punishment since 1877, the year of inauguration of the National Penitentiary, first building designed for the prison function until 1927 when the Prision of Villa Devoto was opened.
It´s considered that in this period, different attitudes presented in the relationship between society and the prisoner, determining the relationship between the city and the prison space, leading, at first, to a systematic expulsion to the suburbs, the city limits and then the territory, as part of a new logic of punishment which consisted on three steps: marginalization, concealment and confinement. This logic will be applied until the 40s, when the social imaginary in relation to the criminal and his punishment changed.
We expect to understand how changes in social imaginary in relation to the idea of “threat” changed social practices in the place that the prison building occupies in the city.
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