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Public space is constantly contested. Wherever conflicts escalate, control and order are the foremost responses. This book offers a fresh alternative to this austere approach. A group of endowed scholars from all around the world discuss public urban space, expanding critical social geography into a multidisciplinary view. The book provides a timely critique of contemporary rigid policing and ubiquitous surveillance. It shows how increasing regulation and normalization contribute in increasing social exclusion and polarization. The voices of marginal groups are clearly heard, and the global approach becomes tangible with several everyday examples. Hille Koskela, Professor of Geography, University of Turku, Finland Ranging around the globe and across academic disciplines, Order and Conflict in Public Space delves into the dangerous dialectic by which urban public space is made and remade. As the book’s provocative case studies point out, forces of privatization, surveillance and exclusion now pervade contemporary public space to the point that its very viability seems increasingly uncertain. At the same time, the sort of sharp, engaged analysis found in these pages offers hope of something better than an obituary. Jeff Ferrell, Visiting Professor of Criminology, University of Kent, UK (cid:84)(cid:104)(cid:105)(cid:115)(cid:32)(cid:112)(cid:97)(cid:103)(cid:101)(cid:32)(cid:105)(cid:110)(cid:116)(cid:101)(cid:110)(cid:116)(cid:105)(cid:111)(cid:110)(cid:97)(cid:108)(cid:108)(cid:121)(cid:32)(cid:108)(cid:101)(cid:102)(cid:116)(cid:32)(cid:98)(cid:97)(cid:110)(cid:107) Order and Conflict in Public Space Which public and whose space? The understanding of public space as an arena where individuals can claim full use and access hides a reality of constant nego- tiation, conflict and surveillance. This collection uses case studies concerning the management, use and transgression of public space to invite reflection on the way in which everyday social interaction is framed and shaped by the physical environment and vice versa. International experts from fields including geography, criminology, sociology and urban studies come together to debate the concepts of order and conflict in public space. This book is divided into two parts: spaces of control and spaces of transgression. Part I focuses on formal and informal surveillance and the politics of control, using case studies to compare strategies in spaces including Olympic cities, luxury skyscrapers, residential neighbourhoods and shopping malls. Part II focuses on transgressive or deviant behaviour in public spaces, with case studies examining behaviour in nightlife districts, governance of homelessness, boy-r acer culture and abortion protests. The epilogue concludes the book with an exploration of possible future avenues for research on public space, and a critical appraisal of the concept of public space itself. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals in the areas of criminology, sociology, surveillance studies, human and social geography, and urban studies and planning. Mattias De Backer is a researcher and teaching assistant at the Criminology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Lucas Melgaço is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Georgiana Varna is a Research Fellow at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Francesca Menichelli is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford, UK. Routledge Studies in Crime and Society Collective Violence, Democracy and Queer Sex Work Protest Policing Edited by Mary Laing, Katy Pilcher David R. Mansley and Nicola Smith Prostitution in the Community Criminology and War Attitudes, action and resistance Transgressing the borders Sarah Kingston Edited by Sandra Walklate and Ross McGarry Surveillance, Capital and Resistance Michael McCahill and Rachel L. Finn Transitional Justice and Legacies of State Violence Crime, Community and Morality Talking about torture in Northern Simon Green Ireland Lisa White Flexible Workers Labour, regulation and the political Why Men Buy Sex economy of the stripping industry Examining sex worker clients Teela Sanders and Kate Hardy Philip Birch Histories of State Surveillance in State Crime, Women and Gender Europe and Beyond Victoria E. Collins Edited by Kees Boersma, Rosamunde van Brakel, Chiara Fonio and Pieter Men, Masculinities and Violence Wagenaar An ethnographic study Anthony Ellis Rape, Victims and Investigations Experiences and perceptions of law Order and Conflict in Public Space enforcement officers responding to Edited by Mattias De Backer, Lucas reported rapes Melgaço, Georgiana Varna and Shana L. Maier Francesca Menichelli Understanding Gender Based Policing, Port Security and Crime Violence Control National and international contexts An ethnography of the port Edited by Nadia Aghtaie and securityscape Geetanjali Gangoli Yarin Eski Order and Conflict in Public Space Edited by Mattias De Backer, Lucas Melgaço, Georgiana Varna and Francesca Menichelli First published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2016 Mattias De Backer, Lucas Melgaço, Georgiana Varna and Francesca Menichelli The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial matter, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-i n-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Names: Backer, Mattias de, editor. Title: Order and conflict in public space / edited by Mattias De Backer, Lucas Melgaðco, Georgiana Varna and Francesca Menichelli. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge studies in crime and society ; 20 Identifiers: LCCN 2015046948| ISBN 9781138931183 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315679884 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Public spaces–Social aspects. | Public safety. | Crime prevention. | Social control. Classification: LCC HT185 .O74 2016 | DDC 363.1–dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015046948 ISBN: 978-1-138-93118-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-67988-4 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear Contents List of figures ix List of maps x List of tables xi Notes on contributors xii 1 Preface 1 MATTIAS DE BACKER, LUCAS MELGAÇO, GEORGIANA VARNA AND FRANCESCA MENICHELLI PART I Spaces of control 13 2 Normalising exceptional public space security: the spatial fix of the Olympic carceral 15 JON COAFFEE 3 Securitization and urban space: the case of a skyscraper in Mexico City 37 NELSON ARTEAGA BOTELLO 4 The residential normalisation of public spaces: towards a post- punitive regulation? 62 ANTONIN MARGIER 5 Avoiding encounters with poverty: aesthetics, politics and economics in a privileged neighbourhood of Cape Town 79 NICK SCHUERMANS AND MANFRED SPOCTER 6 Caution, control and consumption: defining acceptable conduct in the semi- public space of Czech shopping malls 101 PAVEL POSPĚCH viii Contents PART II Spaces of transgression 123 7 Reclaiming civility in urban nightlife districts 125 ILSE VAN LIEMPT 8 Dwelling without a home: Denver’s splintered public spaces 140 SIG LANGEGGER AND STEPHEN KOESTER 9 Boy racer culture and class conflict: urban regeneration, social exclusion, and the rights of the road 160 KAREN LUMSDEN 10 Rethinking spaces, sites and encounters of conflict in twenty- first century Britain: the case of abortion protest in public space 182 LUCY JACKSON AND GILL VALENTINE EPILOGUE Chaos/order and the future of public space research 205 11 The future of (spatial) criminology and research about public space 207 KEITH HAYWARD 12 Diss and ditch? What to do with public space 216 MYRIAM HOUSSAY- HOLZSCHUCH Index 221 Figures 3.1 Main facade of Reforma 222 38 3.2 The two slender towers of Reforma 222 45 3.3 Access to shops located in Reforma 222 46 3.4 Glass- roofed interior street 46 3.5 The rear facade, which preserves the remains of a building of the nineteenth century 47 5.1 The built environment of Tamboerskloof 80 5.2 Fortification of private space and privatization of public space 87 7.1 Utrecht’s nightlife district and our four observation points (I, II, III, IV) 127 7.2 Rotterdam’s nightlife district and our four observation points (I, II, III, IV) 128 10.1 A typical set up of Abort67’s display 191 10.2 Members of Abort67 stand with their large signage 192 10.3 A Pro- Choice activist covers Abort67’s signs 193 10.4 The reaction of passers-b y to the models that Abort67 uses to demonstrate the size of a 12-week-o ld foetus 194 10.5 Members of Abort67 are arrested under the Public Order Act (Summer 2012) 196 10.6 A PCSO attends an Abort67 display in Sheffield (2014) 198