Fear, Space and Urban Planning A Critical Perspective from Southern

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

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Simone Tulumello

Fear, Space and Urban Planning A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe

UNIPA Springer Series Editor-in-chief Carlo Amenta, Dept. of Economics, Management and Statistics Sciences, University of Palermo, Italy Series editors Sebastiano Bavetta, Dept. of Economics, University of Palermo, Italy Calogero Caruso, Dept. of Pathobiology, University of Palermo, Italy Gioacchino Lavanco, Dept. of Psychology, University of Palermo, Italy Bruno Maresca, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy Andreas Öchsner, Dept. of Engineering and Information Technology, Griffith University, Australia Mariacristina Piva, Dept. of Economic and Social Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy Roberto Pozzi Mucelli, Dept. of Diagnostics and Public Health, University of Verona, Italy Antonio Restivo, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Palermo, Italy Norbert M. Seel, Dept. of Education, University of Freiburg, Germany Gaspare Viviani, Dept. of Engineering, University of Palermo, Italy

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13175

Simone Tulumello

Fear, Space and Urban Planning A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe

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Simone Tulumello Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa Lisbon Portugal

ISSN 2366-7516 UNIPA Springer Series ISBN 978-3-319-43936-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43937-2

ISSN 2366-7524

(electronic)

ISBN 978-3-319-43937-2

(eBook)

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This book is dedicated to the memory of Alberto, my father, who taught me the necessity, and possibility, of change.

Foreword

The intention—and the value—of this book is to foreground the more opaque instances of fear in the urban