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Can you hear me?' -Phone centers and the struggle for public space Urban policies focused on perceptions of unsafety may be theorized as a form of vengeful, revanchist urbanism (Smith, 1996), in an on-going management by political elites of constituencies' anxieties.The resulting interventions tend to be played-out in strategies to 're-order' and 'clean' urban space from a dangerous other (Dal Lago, 1999), towards whom all fears are catalyzed (Palidda, 2008;Petrillo, 2000).In this paper, I investigate into this form of urbanism, by drawing on empirical data collected through my phd research work in two Italian cities which are characterised by different political traditions: Verona and Modena.In particular, I will focus on the regulation of phone centers and on the conflicts that have emerged, by drawing on on the narratives of all the actors involved.This will allow to shed a light on how parts of public space are being transformed through practices of control and how phone centers-ow
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Can you hear me?' -Phone centers and the struggle for public space Urban policies focused on perceptions of unsafety may be theorized as a form of vengeful, revanchist urbanism (Smith, 1996), in an on-going management by political elites of constituencies' anxieties.The resulting interventions tend to be played-out in strategies to 're-order' and 'clean' urban space from a dangerous other (Dal Lago, 1999), towards whom all fears are catalyzed (Palidda, 2008;Petrillo, 2000).In this paper, I investigate into this form of urbanism, by drawing on empirical data collected through my phd research work in two Italian cities which are characterised by different political traditions: Verona and Modena.In particular, I will focus on the regulation of phone centers and on the conflicts that have emerged, by drawing on on the narratives of all the actors involved.This will allow to shed a light on how parts of public space are being transformed through practices of control and how phone centers-ow
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