Defensive urbanism and local governance

Perspectives from the Basque Country

Bibliographic Data

ID23030366
AuthorsGema Varona (0000-0002-2794-2239), Gema Varona Martínez (Institute of Criminology, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume11
Issue6
Pages1273-1291
Publication date2021-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOñati Socio-legal Series (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2079-5971 • E-ISSN: 2079-5971
PublisherOnati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1138
OpenAlexW3199323039
LanguageEN
References cited31

In contrast with the perspective of local safety audits for women, which aim to promote the democratic use of public space in the context of inclusive urbanism or pro-social design, defensive urbanism is a term that has been related to situational prevention in order to bar or restrict the use of public space by several stigmatised groups. This trend can be understood in terms of the broken windows theory and zero tolerance approaches in criminology as well as of social exclusion in globalised cities. This paper will tackle the origin and development of the concept of defensive urbanism, as a kind of local governance related to broader trends in securatisation, as well as its visible ramifications in some administrative regulations in some Basque municipalities.

Context (archaeology) · Corporate governance · Democracy · Economics · Geography · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public space · Situational ethics · Social exclusion · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Urbanism · Architecture · Engineering · French Urban and Social Studies · Latin American Urban Studies · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance

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