A city is crooked because it is diverse, full of migrants speaking dozens of languages; because its inequalities are so glaring, svelte ladies lunching a few blocks away from exhausted transport cleaners; because of its stresses, as in concentrating too many young graduates chasing too few jobs … Can the physical ville [city] straighten out such difficulties? Will plans to pedestrianize a street do anything about the housing crisis? Will the use of sodium borosilicate glass in buildings make people more tolerant of immigrants?
Richard Sennett, Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, 2018 # 4
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Imagine an Altereurope
This quote has been selected as part of one of the collections of Alterlibrary, titled 'Altereurope.'
In it, we find inspirations to imagine an alternative continent of Europe.
In creating this collection, we reflect on the multiple shifts that happen when thinking about Europe from Alterity. We asked ourselves how this shift of perspective might inflitrate our imaginary, challenging our conventional ways of thinking and helping us envision new forms of living together.
Here are some reflections that emerged during the creation of 'Altereurope.'
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