1st Edition

Crime, Bodies and Space Towards an Ethical Approach to Urban Policies in the Information Age

By Miriam Tedeschi Copyright 2020
276 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

With cities increasingly following rigid rules for designing out crime and producing spaces under surveillance, this book asks how information shapes bodies, space, and, ultimately, policymaking. In recent years, public spaces have changed in Western countries, with the urban realm becoming an ever-more monitored, privatised, homogeneous, and aseptic space that has lost its character,... Read more

1. Introduction 2. The Theory and Practice of Becoming-Space 3. Causality and Space 4. Ethics and Space 5. Ontogenesis and Space 6. Conclusions: Towards an Urban Information Ethics

Biography

Miriam Tedeschi is currently a rsearch fellow at the Department of Geography and Geology, Division of Geography, at the University of Turku. She holds a PhD in Regional Planning and Public Policies (IUAV University, Venice) and has been a visiting researcher at the Law and Theory Lab, University of Westminster, London.