Screen LibraryFear, Space and Urban Planning : A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe /
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....
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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UNIPA Springer Series,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43937-2 |
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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 fe |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(xix,131pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319439372 |
| Index Number: | GF1 |
| CLC: | C912.81 |
| 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. |