Isbn: 9781119500445 - defensible space on the move: mobilisation in english housing policy and practice (rgs-ibg book series) (7 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. 2022. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. Design against crime? What could be better! This compelling story of where defensible space came from, how the idea has changed, and what difference it has made to cities and social life is unputdownable. It turns on a riveting account of the individuals.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 304 pages. 9.02x5.98x0.91 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Defensible Space makes an important conceptual contribution to policy mobilities thinking, to policy and practice, and also to practitioners handling of complex spatial concepts.\* Critically examines the geographical concept Defensible Space, which has been influential in designing out crime to date, and has been applied to housing estates in the UK, North America, Europe and beyond\* Evaluates the movement/mobility/mobilisation of defensible space from the US to the UK and into English housing policy and practice\* Explores the multiple ways the concept of defensible space was interpreted and implemented, as it circulated from national to local level and within particular English housing estates\* Critiquing and pushing forwards work on policy mobilities, the authors illustrate for the first time how transfer mechanisms worked at both a policy and practitioner level\* Drawing on extensive archival research, oral histories and in-depth interviews, this important book reveals defensible space to be ambiguous, uncertain in nature, neither proven or disproven scientifically.…