Spatiul Ghetoului

Abstract

This article aims at analyzing the relation between what „ghetto” signifies beginning in the Christian Middle Age (the Jewish Quarter) up to the modern time (the Central-European Jewish Ghetto, the West-European labor district, the Afro-American neighborhood of North-American cities ) and what the “closed area” (any kind of district situated in a contemporary metropolis) signifies. I have tried to analyze this relation in its evolution, approaching both the continuity, the similarity of original types of ghettoes to contemporary ones, and the discontinuity, the differences existing between the two types of ghetto. The segregation and self-isolation policies define and differentiate the ghetto in its essence. Starting from a contemporary point of view, I try to analyze the ghetto from a theoretical perspective, and from an architectural point of view.