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



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Autore: Tulumello Simone Visualizza persona
Titolo: Fear, Space and Urban Planning : A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe / / by Simone Tulumello Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIX, 131 p. 13 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
Disciplina: 307.1216
Soggetto topico: Human geography
Regional planning
City planning
Urban economics
Crime—Sociological aspects
Human Geography
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
Urban Economics
Crime and Society
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Fear, Space and Urban Planning  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-319-43937-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910252728203321
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Serie: UNIPA Springer Series, . 2366-7516