#polyak

"When the hardware of the city – architecture and urbanism – fails, it is the software – uses and dispositions – that has to create the framework for the city’s functioning. When the artificial separation of residential, industrial, commercial and leisure functions in the modernist city proves to be obstructive rather than unfettering, when the government abandons its poorest citizens, these latter have no other choice than reinventing themselves by transgressing regulations." Polyak, L. (2013). The Rules of Space: Regulation and Resistance in Budapest’s Public Spaces. In: E.T. Bertuzzo, E.B. Gantner, J. Niewöhner, H. Oevermann (eds.): Kontrolle öffentlicher Räume. Unterstützen Unterdrücken Unterhalten Unterwandern, LIT Verlag, Berlin