Fear, Space and Urban Planning : a Critical Perspective from Southern Europe / by Simone Tulumello.
2017
GF1-900
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Title
Fear, Space and Urban Planning : a Critical Perspective from Southern Europe / by Simone Tulumello.
Author
Tulumello, Simone, author.
ISBN
9783319439372
3319439375
9783319439365
3319439367
3319439375
9783319439365
3319439367
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XIX, 131 pages 13 illustrations, 1 illustration in color.) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-43937-2 doi
Call Number
GF1-900
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.2
Summary
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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UNIPA Springer series, 2366-7516
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Table of Contents
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.
Western paradoxes of security and fear
Us and Them: otherness and exclusion
Fear and space
Planning, fear and power
Thinking future.