Abstract:
Thе paper attempts present a different perspective on urban processes, which are undoubtedly one of the main factors for the ghetto phenomenon to occur. Shedding light on certain fragments of the global ghetto phenomenon, on the other hand, allows the positioning of some of the Bulgarian ghettoized urban structures on the global map of world slums. Defined usually as pockets of poverty, areas of invisible geography, slums, ghettos, etc., these loci of the city are distinguished by their diversity and vitality. Located along the entire oikumene, those city quarters have distinctive features through which they can be typologized as urban structures which share a certain set of common features. Undoubtedly, ghettoes have properties that allow them to be an integral part of the binary oppositions, such as “city – ghetto”, “center – periphery”, “poor – rich”, “culture – subculture or counter culture”.