Learning city as a driver for the diffusion of social well-being. Promoting “urban democracies” to reduce inequalities, marginalization and juvenile deviance

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Abstract:

Marginality can no more be read in terms of self-exclusion of the subject, since it is now clear that it corresponds to a process of marginalization also linked to the choices of society, favored by the proliferation of ghetto areas, in which the dominant culture does not pass and is replaced by the codes of anger and oppression. The relationship between juvenile delinquency and urban marginality is decidedly close, because it is fueled by the lack of opportunities, resources, the possibility of spaces and services suitable for the social and cultural development of individuals. Including the most vulnerable segments of the population in the policy of spreading social well-being means moving towards multiple “urban democracies” that must promote: the possibility, formal and substantial, of dialogue around the city project; the spatial and temporal openness for the birth of different ideas and projects.

• #marginality
• #learning city
• #deviance
• #juvenile justice
• #suburbs