Agoraphobia, the malady of the metropolis

Agoraphobia can be translated to the fear of open, public spaces, of squares and of spaces of gathering within a city. This malady starts developing together with the industrialization of the city, in which the role of the citizen became that of a flaneur (a person who consumes the city without any reason behind it). This is the result of the dramatic change in the sensual perception of the city and the apparent prevalent lack of order that dominated the cities of that age.