학술논문

Visibility as Justice: Immigrant Street Vendors and the Right to Difference in Rome.
Document Type
Article
Source
Journal of Planning Education & Research; Mar2024, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p194-209, 16p
Subject
Immigrants
Urban planning
Street vendors
Public spaces
Visibility
Streets
Rome
Language
ISSN
0739456X
Abstract
Dominant constructions of what looks "appropriate" enable the exclusion of poor immigrants from public spaces around the world. This paper analyzes how Bangladeshi vendors challenge exclusion by tactically appearing and disappearing in Rome's iconic landscapes. While xenophobic, pro-decorum regulations seek to banish marginalized subjects from the tourist-friendly city center, immigrant vendors mobilize their own visibility by emplacing urbanisms of opportunity, refuge, and belonging. Learning from these urbanisms, planners can deploy a spatial lens of visibility to advance the right to difference. I propose In Plain Site, a policy and place-making approach that helps empower oppressed groups to see and be seen in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]