The polis—understood here as a walled reserve of bios that feeds on the zoē beyond its walls (0.10, 0.12, 0.19)—is an evolution of the domus whose primal expression is the domestication of nature (0.23, 024). Thus, the paradeisos, as an expression of the simultaneous extension of the domus and of human dominance, is the underlying topology of all human urban centers.

In view of the foregoing, the structure of the walled city (urbs) of early modernity is reproduced in a fractal manner in all modern cities in the center-suburb-periphery structure (0.28) that gave rise to a new type of ghetto whose walls are no longer built of brick and mortar but of alterity, economic inequality and discriminatory legal practices. This is the situation of the slums, the favelas and the containment or tolerance zones that surround all modern urban centers, “ghettos” in a broader sense of the term, which have emerged spontaneously on the periphery of cities fed by the secular ferment of racism, classism and poverty, without the need of an official decree. Their spontaneous and widespread appearance lies in the fact that they are structures implicit in the dynamics of domination and sovereignty of the urban topos .

An analogy: bios is to the self that lives walled within the polis as zoē to the alterity forced to dwell in its periphery, between the city and its wastelands.