Defensible space on the move : mobilisation in English housing policy and practice

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Defensible space on the move : mobilisation in English housing policy and practice

Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick

(RGS-IBG book series)

Wiley, 2022

  • : hardback

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-278) and index

Contents of Works

  • Defensible space: an introduction
  • Defensible space is mobilised in England
  • Defensible space goes on trial but attracts those in power
  • Operationalising defensible space. Case study 'The Mozart Estate: a laboratory for defensible space'
  • Evaluations of defensible space
  • The uptake and resilience of defensible space ideas
  • Defensible space: a common sense, middle-range theory

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Description

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

Table of Contents

List of Figures vi List of Tables viii Glossary of Acronyms ix Series Editors' Preface xi Acknowledgements xii Preface xiii 1 Defensible Space: An Introduction 1 2 Defensible Space Is Mobilised in England 32 3 Defensible Space Goes on Trial but Attracts Those in Power 64 4 Operationalising Defensible Space 102 Case Study ' The Mozart Estate: A Laboratory for Defensible Space' 141 5 Evaluations of Defensible Space 156 6 The Uptake and Resilience of Defensible Space Ideas 187 7 Defensible Space: A Common Sense, Middle-range Theory 219 References 251 Index 279

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