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

By Simone Tulumello

This ebook examines the phenomenon of city worry – the expanding anxiousness over crime and violence in Western towns regardless of their excessive protection – which will constructing a accomplished, severe, exploratory thought of worry, house, and concrete making plans that unravels the paradoxes in their mutual kin. through focusing particularly at the southern eu towns of Palermo and Lisbon, the publication additionally goals to extend upon contemporary reviews on city geopolitics, enriching them from the point of view of standard, instead of international, towns. Readers will locate enlightening research of the ways that city worry is (re)produced, together with via misinformative discourses on safeguard and worry and the political building of otherness as a way of exclusion. The spatialization of worry, e.g., via fortification, privatization, and fragmentation, is explored, and the ways that city making plans is expert by means of and has in flip been shaping city worry are investigated. A concluding bankruptcy considers divergent strength futures and makes a decision for motion. The e-book will entice all with an curiosity in no matter if, and to what volume, the creation of ‘fearscapes’, the modern landscapes of worry, constitutes an emergent city political economy.

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2016). Palermo, the main city of the region of Sicily and fifth largest Italian city, is home to around 700,000 inhabitants in the municipal area, which cover around 160 km2. Palermo is the central city of a metropolitan area, extending along the northern coast of Sicily, home to around 1,100,000 inhabitants in a territory covering around 1400 km2. The recent urban evolution of Palermo is marked by several peculiarities. The power of criminality and corrupt politics up until the 1980s is well known (Pedone 2013): this caused an absence of regulation of the urban growth and decisively influenced the labour market.

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