Fear, Space and Urban Planning: A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe (UNIPA Springer Series) - Tapa blanda

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Tulumello, Simone

 
9783319829463: Fear, Space and Urban Planning: A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe (UNIPA Springer Series)
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ISBN 10: 3319829467 ISBN 13: 9783319829463
Editorial: Springer, 2018

Sinopsis

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.

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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.

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Springer
Año de publicación
2018
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
3319829467
ISBN 13 
9783319829463
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Número de páginas
152
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