The Plague and the City as Forms of Absurdity

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  • Alexander Rappaport Scientific Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning, Branch of the Central Scientific-Research and Project Institute of the Construction Ministry of Russia

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.60.1476

Keywords:

city; plague; paradoxicality; ambivalence; contemporary urbanization phenomena analogous to plague

Abstract

Plague epidemics turned the city from the place of recovery to the place of death. The plague was neutralized by chemistry and came back immediately in the loss of the scale, growth in urban territories and roads, and emergence of awful city labyrinths.

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Rappaport, A. (2019). The Plague and the City as Forms of Absurdity. Project Baikal, 16(60), 69–69. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.60.1476

Published

2019-06-16

Issue

No. 60 (2019): in good health

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Short reviews

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