More recently, the term ghetto has come to apply to any urban area exclusively. Ghetto, formerly a street, or quarter, of a city set apart as a legally enforced residence area for jews. The term ghetto is actually several centuries old, referring to a specific area of venice.
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In a manner typical or stereotypical of an impoverished urban area, as in being makeshift, garish, or crass: The ghetto is not a “natural area” coterminous with ‘the history of migration’ (as louis wirth argued), but a special form of collective violence concretized in urban space. Hearing the word ‘ghetto’, most people will think of a poor urban neighbourhood inhabited by a single minority group.
The term ghetto historically refers to neighborhoods where particular minority groups, often living in poverty, are segregated from the broader population.
[1] ghetto sering dikaitkan sebagai perlambangan diskriminasi. In 1541, the quarter was enlarged to cover the neighboring ghetto vecchio, and in 1633, the ghetto nuovissimo was also added. Holocaust ghettos weren’t just holding areas — they were deliberately designed spaces of starvation, control, and ultimately, mass murder. In other cases, ghettos were places of terrible poverty.
In some cases, the ghetto was a jewish quarter with a relatively affluent population (for instance the jewish ghetto in venice). A section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social pressures or economic. Its origins can be traced back to the 1500s in. Due to population density, buildings rose to six or more stories.
