Obscure sacrifices in the city. A crossroads between psychoanalysis, architecture, urbanism, and economics based on the TV series The Wire

Abstract

Multiple voices can be heard in this text compilation that brings together architecture, urbanism, psychoanalysis, and economics around The Wire, an American series set in Baltimore. In this crossroads, the effects of the market on public and private institutions are highlighted, as well as the transformations that spaces go through, generating highly segregated population sectors. The transformations of the urban fabric and their consequences on social groups are also pointed out. In this sense, readers will be able to grasp the shift from a way of understanding the city in an extensive space to the idea of an overlap of layers where the different strata live together.