The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear

"How does the city's urban fabric relate to crime and fear, and how is that fabric affected by crime and fear? Does the urban environment affect one's decision to commit an offence? Is there a victimisation-related inequality within cities? How do crime and fear interrelate to inequality and segregation in cities of developing countries? What are the challenges to planning cities which are both safe and sustainable? This book searches for answers to these questions in the nature of the city, particularly in the social interactions that take place in urban space distinctively guided by different land uses and people's activities. In other words, the book deals with the urban fabric of crime and fear. The novelty of the book is to place safety and security issues on the urban scale by (1) showing links between urban structure, and crime and fear, (2) illustrating how different disciplines deal with urban vulnerability to (and fear of) crime (3) including concrete examples of issues and challenges found in European and North American cities, and, without being too extensive, also in cities of the Global South"--Publisher's website. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear....Pages 1-33 Front Matter....Pages 35-35 Urban Security: Whose Security? Everyday Responses to Urban Fears....Pages 37-53 Urban Fear and Its Roots in Place....Pages 55-82 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 Safe on the Move: The Importance of the Built Environment....Pages 85-110 Safety in Numbers: High-Resolution Analysis of Crime in Street Networks....Pages 111-137 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Ecological Analysis of Urban Offence and Offender Data....Pages 141-163 Tracking Social Life and Crime....Pages 165-190 Acts of Vandalism and Fear in Neighbourhoods: Do They Affect Housing Prices?....Pages 191-213 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 Turf War in Rio de Janeiro: Youth, Drug Traffic, Guns and Hyper-masculinity....Pages 217-237 Reconsidering Crime and Urban Fortification in South Africa....Pages 239-264 Front Matter....Pages 265-265 Community, Security and Distributive Justice....Pages 267-282 Is Hammarby Sjöstad a Model Case? Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in Stockholm, Sweden....Pages 283-310 An International Perspective of the Gender Dimension in Planning for Urban Safety....Pages 311-339 Back Matter....Pages 341-351 How does the cityâs urban fabric relate to crime and fear, and how is that fabric affected by crime and fear? Does the urban environment affect oneâs decision to commit an offence? Is there a victimisation-related inequality within cities? How do crime and fear interrelate to inequality and segregation in cities of developing countries? What are the challenges to planning cities which are both safe and sustainable? This book searches for answers to these questions in the nature of the city, particularly in the social interactions that take place in urban space distinctively guided by different land uses and peopleâs activities. Â In other words, the book deals with the urban fabric of crime and fear. The novelty of the book is to place safety and security issues on the urban scale by (1) showing links between urban structure, and crime and fear, (2) illustrating how different disciplines deal with urban vulnerability to (and fear of) crime (3) including concrete examples of issues and challenges found in European and North American cities, and, without being too extensive, also in cities of the Global South With global case studies, this book traces the interplay between crime, and the fear of crime, and the wider urban fabric. It shows how an urban environment can affect the decision to commit a crime, and how some cityscape have crime and inequality 'built in'.