The city between freedom and security contested public spaces in the 21st century
This publication explores the contested territory between the state and corporate drive to 'securitise' urban space - and the principle of the city as a site for enacting open civil society, participatory democracy, and the freedom of speech and assembly
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Basel, [Switzerland]
Birkhäuser, part of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Foreword: BAS
- Foreword: NSM/PST
- Introduction: On urban Indefensibility: Friction Lines in the Production of the Open City
- The City Between Freedom and Security: Project Journal
- B
- Discursive Texts
- For a Theory of Destituent Power
- Protecting Vulnerable Cities from Terrorism: Enhancing the Resilience of Everyday Urban Infrastructure
- Photo Essay: Melilla, Spain
- The Fear Factor
- Defensible Space as a Crime Preventive Measure
- "Fortress Britain": High Security, Insecurity and the Challenge of Preventing Harm
- Photo Essay: Wall Street, New York, NY, USA
- Situational Crime Prevention: Theoretical Background and Current Practice
- When Life Itself Is War: The Urbanization of Military and Security Doctrine
- Securing the State: National Security and Secret Intelligence
- Designing Peace of Mind: Counterterrorism in Great Britain
- The Right to the City
- Photo Essay: Israel/Palestine
- C
- Contested Sites
- D
- Expert Interviews
- Photo Essay: Oslo, Norway
- Photo Essay: Occupy Wall Street, New York, NY, USA
- Photo Essay: Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt
- E
- Discursive Proposals
- Discursive Design Proposals
- Dystopian Scenario for Extreme Security
- Positive
- Sum Game
- Mutual Concessions
- Grafting the Political to the Processional
- Participatory Adaptation
- In(tro)verted Security
- Decentralized Security
- Security through Urban Mixtures


