Thresholds of Fear
Embracing the Urban Shadow
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10863095 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nan Ellin (Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 869-883 |
| Publication date | 2001-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00420980124399 |
| PMID | 17663089 |
| OpenAlex | W2092125502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 6 |
My interest in the relationship between fear and city building was sparked while doing research on the French new town of Jouy-leMoutier 15 years ago. This new town was an experiment in neotraditional urbanism (or the ‘new urbanism’), an effort to build a new town which looks and functions something like an old town. I wanted to discover whether or not this was a good strategy for city building, so I lived there and visited many of its inhabitants, inquiring about their likes and dislikes regarding the town. Invariably, the subject of fear arose despite the miniscule crime rate in the area. I initially paid little heed and simply waited for the conversation to turn back to the subject of my research. I soon realised, however, that the concern about insecurity was central to the nostalgia for the past that incited neotraditional tendencies and to my evaluation of its success at Jouy-le-Moutier. Returning from the immaculate French new town, I saw New York City with different eyes. Living in my East Harlem neighbourhood amongst abandoned buildings, crack houses, forti ed housing projects and scores of homeless people, I began re ecting not only upon the motivations for defensive urbanism, but also on possibilities for diminishing the fear through design and other means. In this essay, I offer a brief history of fear and its relationship to city building in the West along with some new directions in urban design that respond to fear proactively rather than reactively
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Civil engineering · Conversation · Gentrification · Media studies · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Psychoanalysis · Shadow (psychology · Sociology · Subject (documents · Urbanism · Architecture · Engineering · History · Psychology · Urban Planning and Governance
The Environmental Approach to Security
Fear, city, cinema
Are gated communities indispensable for residents
So ograjene skupnosti za stanovalce nepogrešljive
The practice of alley gating in contemporary Jakarta
Spaces of Exclusivity or Connection? Linkages between a Gated Community and its Poorer Neighbour in a Cape Town Master Plan Development
Commentary
Battlement Mesa
Who speaks? And who listens? The relationship between planners and women’s participation in local planning in a multi-cultural urban environment
The sociality of personal and collective nostalgia
Urban–Rural Shifts in Intentional Firearm Death
Reading between the lines
Reclaiming public space
Progressive Nostalgia in Novel Living Arrangements
Visualising the Effect of Private‐sector Involvement on Redeveloped Public Spaces in the Netherlands
Social representations of the coronavirus and causal perception of its origin
Utopia, Performativity, and the Unhomely
Fear of Crime or Fear of Life? Public Insecurities in Chile
Tuti is Losing its Uniqueness
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |