RT Book
T1 Fear, Space and Urban Planning: A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe
T2 UNIPA Springer Series
T2 SpringerLink Bücher
T2 Springer eBook Collection Social Sciences
A1 Tulumello, Simone
LA English
PP Cham
PB Springer
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1654898058
AB This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear - the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety - with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space, and urban planning that unravels the paradoxes of their mutual relations. By focusing especially on the southern European cities of Palermo and Lisbon, the book also aims to expand upon recent studies on urban geopolitics, enriching them from the perspective of ordinary, as opposed to global, cities. Readers will find enlightening analysis of the ways in which urban fear is (re)produced, including by misinformative discourses on security and fear and the political construction of otherness as a means of exclusion. The spatialization of fear, e.g., through fortification, privatization, and fragmentation, is explored, and the ways in which urban planning is informed by and has in turn been shaping urban fear are investigated. A concluding chapter considers divergent potential futures and makes a call for action. The book will appeal to all with an interest in whether, and to what extent, the production of ‘fearscapes’, the contemporary landscapes of fear, constitutes an emergent urban political economy
AB Living in a fearscape? -- Western paradoxes of security and fear -- Us and Them: otherness and exclusion -- Fear and space -- Planning, fear and power -- Thinking future
OP 131
CN GF1-900
SN 9783319439372
K1 Social Sciences
K1 Regional planning
K1 urban planning
K1 Urban economics
K1 Crime : Sociological aspects
K1 Human Geography
K1 Großstadt : Kriminalitätsfurcht : Stadtplanung : Kriminalsoziologie : Anthropogeografie
DO 10.1007/978-3-319-43937-2