Reducing boundaries: understanding exclusion through informal security defensive systems in wealthy urban areas: the cases of Porto Alegre and Brussels
| dc.contributor.author | Vanin, Fabio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Casagrande, Olivia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-09T11:24:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-09T11:24:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | A large part of manifestations of social disease by the “risk society” are connected with the perception of an increase in criminal phenomena, due to the growing distrust, anxiety and uncertainty with respect to the Public Authorities. The issue of security moves from a national to a local concern, especially at the urban level, where different strategies and interventions are displaced for securing private and public spaces, ranging from spatial segregation (e.g. gated communities) to the control of accesses, use of road bollards, installation of closed-circuit television system, and other techniques of crime prevention through environmental design. Moreover, it is progressively emerging in different contexts, both from the global north and south, that the way upper class reproduces itself is deeply entangled with ideas of risk and safety, leading to what has been defined as the “visual landscape of fear” (Low, 2001). Daniel Goldstein has recently defined the “rise of the security paradigm as a framework for organising contemporary social life” (Goldstein, 2010). This leading paradigm is reaffirming class differences rather than abolishing them. Media, public discourses and the “market of fear” contribute to that polarization simplifying and reducing the opposition between legal and illegal settlements, and exacerbating the perception of risk. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 996-997 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2075 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | Reducing boundaries: understanding exclusion through informal security defensive systems in wealthy urban areas: the cases of Porto Alegre and Brussels | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |