Learning Objectives
After completing this lesson, you shall be able to:
- Identify different forms of violence in urban areas;
- Make the link between security policies and the criminalisation of the poor;
- Differentiate between "urban violence" and "violence of urbanisation";
- Identify in which respects architecture and urban planning (but also other social sciences) can be used for the interests
of security projects;
- See in what respect bringing security to urban areas can increase segregation and thus violence.
Methodology
In order to fulfil the learning objectives of this lesson, you will have to:
- Look at the photographs illustrating "gangster culture";
- Read a text on the possibilities for giving a voice to the poor in urban planning;
- Read an article about the criminalisation of poverty;
- Watch a film that illustrates some of the different forms urban violence can take, and then complete an exercise;
- Read a text about urban planning based on a policy of law and order;
- Read an introduction to "gated communities" and their problems, and then look at different examples;
- Evaluate documents and pages from websites about gated communities;
- Think over what you have read and seen, and then write an essay on your own position on urban violence.
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Working through this lesson you will come across the following activities, tests and downloads:
Activities
Tests
Downloads
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