Overview: 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 ofThis 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 boo
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