Christos Papastergiou Leftover Sites As Disruptors of Urban Narratives In
PEER REVIEW The Leftover City: Leftover Sites as Disruptors of Urban Narratives in the Work of J.G. Ballard, Jim Jarmusch, and Wim Wenders Christos Papastergiou KEYWORDS Leftover City, leftover sites, architecture, urban design, cinema, literature, disruption, narrative, Ballard, Jarmusch, Wenders Leftover City, sitios abandonados, arquitectura, diseño urbano, cine, literatura, narrativa, Ballard, Jarmusch, Wenders Papastergiou, Christos. 2020. “The Leftover City: Leftover Sites as Disruptors of Urban Narratives in the Work of J.G. Ballard, Jim Jarmusch, and Wim Wenders.” informa 13: 208–221. informa Issue #13 ‘Urban Disruptors’ 209 THE LEFTOVER CITY: LEFTOVER SITES AS DISRUPTORS OF URBAN NARRATIVES IN THE WORK OF J.G. BALLARD, JIM JARMUSCH, AND WIM WENDERS Christos Papastergiou ABSTRACT that introduce a creative, holistic understanding of the phenomenon and discusses alternative uses of the During the 1970s and 1980s, emerged a second wave urban environment. The leftover sites can result from of architectural criticism to Modernism related extraordinary conditions; for example, wars, physical with the global oil and fiscal crises of the period. destruction or mass migration. However, they are This criticism, targeting the issues of the ongoing mainly the by-products or the unintended products urbanization, the unlimited spending of resources of long-term processes, such as the fragmentation and the environmental degradation rendered of a city due to rapid, uneven and unbalanced the fragmentation of cities a critical problem for development. They can be produced by the spas- social coherence. In this second period, leftover modic sprawl of the city, inconsistencies in the built sites were rediscovered and appeared as a favorite context and discontinuities of landscape, topography subject in narrative arts.
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