The Language of Public Mourning—De- and Reterritorialization of Public Spaces as a Reaction to Terrorist Attacks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Kailuweit ◽  
Aldina Quintana
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Terrorist Attacks

scholarly journals Design Strategies for Safer and More Inclusive Public Spaces

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Anton-Barco ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Public space in the city is being continuously contested. The most compelling of these challenges comes from the recent terrorist attacks on cities across the world. While the awareness of the need to ‘design against terrorism’ and a demand for greater safety in public spaces has entered into citizen’s consciousness -given the perception of fear due to recent attacks- drastic security and surveillance measures usually go against a more open and inclusive public realm.

scholarly journals Detroit Living Amid Ruins

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Pancorbo ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
Progressive Deterioration ◽  
Historic Memory ◽  
The City

Public spaces and monuments act as the material representatives of historic memory of traditional cities. There is an international consensus to value, catalog and preservation of these spaces and buildings, both for their heritage, as well as their cultural and historic value. In contrast, certain American urban agglomerations, like Detroit, which has a clear industrial origin, the historic memory of the city is materialized not in its public spaces, which it lacks, but in its productive spaces. Instead of a relatively more normative risk of terrorist attacks to public spaces, these productive spaces risk abandonment, and progressive deterioration. They suffer this fate due to the lack of awareness, both by citizens and institutions, to their importance as carriers of the foundational DNA of these societies. This is leading to their disappearance in the not too distant future.

scholarly journals London and Anti-Terrorism in Europe

European View ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-269
Author(s):  
Lord Toby Harris
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Services ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Terrorist Incident ◽  
The World

Urban terrorist attacks have become increasingly frequent in Europe in recent years. The review conducted during 2016 into London's preparedness to respond to a major terrorist incident found that London's emergency services had improved their ability to respond quickly to such incidents. However, the safety of citizens from such events can never be guaranteed. Preparation is nevertheless essential, and emergency services need to adjust their tactics and plans in response to terrorist incidents that occur anywhere in the world as attack methodologies spread very rapidly through the Internet. The safety of all public spaces needs to be kept under review. There is a role for commercial businesses in enhancing security, and each individual has a part to play in building a culture of security and resilience.

Who is afraid of public space? Public art in a contested, secured and surveilled city

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-254
Author(s):  
Grace McQuilten
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Youth Gangs ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Street Violence ◽  
Gender Based

In the wake of multiple global crises, fears of terrorism, rising nationalistic sentiments globally and the pervasive impacts of gender-based violence in public spaces, contemporary urban cities are permeated with surveillance, anxiety, fear and division. In this context, what role can (and should) public art be playing? This article explores this question in the context of Melbourne, a major metropolitan centre in Australia, which has been ruptured by the multiplying effects of highly publicized episodes of street violence, isolated terrorist attacks, high-profile murders and politically driven narratives about youth gangs. Looking at the work of female artists Maryann Talia Pau, Amy Spiers and Catherine Ryan, and artists from African Australian communities including Ez Deng, Atong Atem and Asia Hassan, the article addresses questions about agency and marginalization for artists working in public space, and considers how marginalized community groups may face barriers to creating artworks that engage directly in mainstream public spaces.

scholarly journals O TERRORISMO DE BAIXO CUSTO OU A AMEAÇA INVISÍVEL: O TERRORISMO E AS POLÍTICAS BRASILEIRAS DE ANTITERRORISMO

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcial A. G. Suarez ◽  
Igor P. Acacio
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Material Cost ◽  
Violent Political Action

We propose to study a tactical change into the violent political action of terrorist attacks: in addition to the car bombs and the attacks on public spaces performed by organized terrorist cells, attacks can growingly be pursued at a lower organizational and material cost. We propose to define such attacks as “low cost terrorism”, referring to recent events (Paris, London, Brussels, and Barcelona). Aside from the theoretical discussion and characterization of terrorism as a macrosecuritization process, we discuss Brazil’s anti-terrorist legislation in this context and highlight inconsistencies and inadequacies of the country’s to address the phenomena of terrorism, especially when referring to “low cost terrorism”.

scholarly journals Flexible Public Spaces through Spatial Urban Interventions, Towards Resilient Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Ahmed Khaled Ahmed Elewa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
Environmental Functions

Cities have become the dominant type of human settlements, currently, more than half of the planet population are living in cities. Thus, cities have to be developed not only in terms of sustainability. Cities face more challenges regarding the dealing with extraordinary events, whether they were for natural causes or terrorist attacks, socio-economic changes, in addition to the fact that climate change is responsible for new phenomena of natural disasters, such as tsunamis. The study argues that spatial urban interventions in public spaces under specific criteria can reshape them into flexible spaces that have the potentials to be adapted with extraordinary events. The study has a theoretical methodology that investigates the relations that link flexible public spaces and the achievement of urban resilience. As well as the study has a practical perspective through the analyzing of selected cases that showed how spatial urban interventions in public spaces can contribute efficiently in reshaping these spaces to be both flexible and vibrant. The findings clarified that flexible public spaces act as safety valves for our cities during extraordinary events, meanwhile, in peacetime they act as vibrant and sustainable spaces that deliver multi socio-economic and environmental functions.

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