suburb

The notion of suburb alludes to neighborhood what is found away from the population of which it is part. The concept is also used to name the end of a locality and to the population that is attached to a larger one.

For example: "Tango arose in the outskirts of the city", "I lost my job and had to move from the center to settle in the suburb", "If we keep walking, we will end up in the suburb".

It can be said that the idea of ​​suburb is linked to urban design. It is understood that a suburb is a set of houses that arises spontaneously, without there being a planning. Slums are created from the uncontrolled growth of a town, which begins to expand geographically. In general, people from the lower class settle in the suburbs who do not have the economic resources to live in the middle of the city, but who need to be close to it.

The term suburb began to be used with respect to the urban development of the medieval cities from Europe. Once the land located inside the ramparts They became insufficient to house the population, annexed villages began to develop outside the walled space. Over the years, these walls were often modified to include the suburbs.

A suburb can be associated with a suburb or to a slum. The slums are often linked to marginalization, poverty, lack of control and assistance from the Condition. Other synonyms by which people often refer to this concept are "suburbs, outskirts, periphery, surroundings, expansion, alfoz, proximidades" and "adjoining." Among the main antonyms we can mention «urban area» and «center».

The people who live in the peripheryIn fact, it is usually the one with the least economic power, although many times there is also the search for greater tranquility that the urban area is unable to offer its inhabitants, given the cacophony of engines, horns and hustle and bustle, often crowned by pollution. environmental and diseases that arise as a result of the accumulation of waste.

For people of the lower classes, life in the suburbs can be very hard, especially if they have the obligation to travel to the center of the city every day to do their jobs. Although this depends on the economic situation and the growth Country-specific, and may even vary from city to city, long journeys from one end to the other can be exhausting and waste time due to the lateness of public transport companies.

On the other hand, the sections that connect the suburb with the center They are not usually very safe, but instead become the focus of assailants of all kinds, something that adds certain risks to the aforementioned wear and tear of travel and waiting.

Fernando ArrabalFinally, he is a novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and filmmaker who was born on August 11, 1932 on Melilla (Spain). Since 1955, he has lived in France and in 1963 he founded the movement known as Panic Group along with Roland Topor and Alejandro Jodorowsky. It is an intense quest to reach beyond Aristotelian society and bequeath to humanity something that prompts it to acquire a new perspective.

His friends included Tristan Tzara and Andy Warhol, and he was linked to the surrealist group headed by André Breton for three years, which is why the American critic Mel Gussow considered him the only survivor of the group which he referred to by the name of "the four vicissitudes of modernity."