The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear

How does the city’s urban fabric relate to crime and fear, and how is that fabric affected by crime and fear? Does the urban environment affect one’s decision to commit an offence? Is there a victimisation-related inequality within cities? How do crime and fear interrelate to inequality and segregation in cities of developing countries? What are the challenges to planning cities which are both safe and sustainable? This book searches for answers to these questions in the nature of the city, particularly in the social interactions that take place in urban space distinctively guided by different land uses and people’s activities.  In other words, the book deals with the urban fabric of crime and fear. The novelty of the book is to place safety and security issues on the urban scale by (1) showing links between urban structure, and crime and fear, (2) illustrating how different disciplines deal with urban vulnerability to (and fear of) crime (3) including concrete examples of issues and challenges found in European and North American cities, and, without being too extensive, also in cities of the Global South.

• City structure
• Crime and urban fortification in South Africa
• Crime in street networks
• Crime prevention
• Fear of crime
• Perceived safety
• Risk and vulnerability
• Safe urban environments
• Social contexts
• Tracking social life and crime
• Turf war in Rio de Janeiro
• Urban crime
• Urban fabric of crime and fear
• Urban offence and offender data
• Urban planning
• Urban security
• Vandalism and fear in neighbourhoods
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• urban geography and urbanism

• , Department of Urban Planning and Environ, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  Vania Ceccato

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