Fear, Space and Urban Planning
A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe
Authors: Tulumello, Simone
Free Preview- Unravels the mutual relations of urban fear, space, and urban planning
- Offers a critical approach innovative within planning research
- Studies a context, southern Europe, that allows the proposition of novel theoretical and empirical insights
- Engages with a theme of interest to a wider audience encompassing practitioners, politicians, and the general public
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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.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Living in a Fearscape?
Pages 1-17
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Western Paradoxes of Security and Fear
Pages 19-38
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Us and Them: Otherness and Exclusion
Pages 39-53
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Fearscapes: Urban Space and the Landscapes of Fear
Pages 55-85
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Planning, Fear and Power
Pages 87-113
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Fear, Space and Urban Planning
- Book Subtitle
- A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe
- Authors
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- Simone Tulumello
- Series Title
- UNIPA Springer Series
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-43937-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-43937-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-43936-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-82946-3
- Series ISSN
- 2366-7516
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 131
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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