Społeczno-kulturowe aspekty ekskluzji i inkluzji w przestrzeni miejskiej
The Sociocultural Aspects of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Urban Space

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to discuss the issues of exclusion and inclusion in relation to the urban space. The exclusion and the inclusion are analyzed as the socially constructed terms. The authors assume that the sense of those terms starts to be reality through the spatial context of the local community life. So the meanings of the exclusion and inclusion are constructed in the process of defining the “normality”, functionality, attraction of the life space. In the article there are the references to the results of the empirical research which confirm the complex and ambiguous — for various social categories — way of perceiving and defining social change. Moreover, the manifestations of change seen by some as leading to the inclusion (e.g. revitalization of the space), for others are becoming the excluding factors. In the process of creation of the meanings of the urban space, its (less or more) exclusive or inclusive character, the important factors are: the knowledge of the place, the place attachment, the sense of security, the sense of influence on the particular place.

• Details
• Contents