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Record Nr.

UNINA9910252728203321

Autore

Tulumello Simone

Titolo

Fear, Space and Urban Planning : A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe / / by Simone Tulumello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-43937-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 131 p. 13 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

Collana

UNIPA Springer Series, , 2366-7516

Disciplina

307.1216

Soggetti

Human geography

Regional planning

City planning

Urban economics

Crime—Sociological aspects

Human Geography

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

Urban Economics

Crime and Society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.