Springer - Fear, Space And Urban Planning: A Critical Perspective From Southern Europe (2017 EN)

Discussion in 'Others' started by Kanka, Oct 27, 2016.

  1. Kanka

    Kanka Well-Known Member Loyal User

    Messages:
    16,086
    Likes Received:
    446
    Trophy Points:
    83
    [​IMG]

    Author: Simone Tulumello
    Full Title: Fear, Space And Urban Planning: A Critical Perspective From Southern Europe
    Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2017 edition (July 27, 2016)
    Year: 2017
    ISBN-13: 9783319439372 (978-3-319-43937-2), 9783319439365 (978-3-319-43936-5)
    ISBN-10: 3319439375, 3319439367
    Pages: 131
    Language: English
    Genre: Crime and Society
    File type: PDF (True)
    Quality: 10/10
    Price: 88.39 €


    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.

    -------------
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Nov 1, 2019