This volume draws on recent accounts of gated communities to consider their growth, governance and their wider impacts in terms of crime, anti-social behaviour, citizenship and the privatization of public spaces.
This volume draws on recent accounts of gated communities to consider their growth, governance and their wider impacts in terms of crime, anti-social ...
This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that suggests that policies in place to make cities better places are inextricably linked to an attempt to civilize, pacify and regulate crime and disorder in urban areas, contributing to a vision of an urban renaissance which is perhaps as much about control as it is about the broader physical and social renewal of our towns and cities. The book has three key themes: the theories, strategies and assumptions underpinning the securing of 'Urban Renaissance'; the agendas of current urban policy in the field of crime control; and, thirdly, the...
This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that suggests that policies in place to make cities better places are inextricably linked to an at...
