An Indefensible Space: Urban Planning at the Safe Hour

Abstract

The appearance of a self saying "new world order", that is, of a "globalized" capitalism founded on the precarious wage earner and the dismantling of the social state had the effect of weakening, impoverishing and marginalizing large fractions of the popular strata. In view of the "local" disorders in the form of violence, incivility and insecurity, improperly qualified as "urban", as if the "city" explained its appearance, the public powers put into practice innumerable "pacification" devices that rely on the contributions of urbanism and architecture. This is the case of the public space whose reconfiguration must, in turn, dissuade the new "inner enemy" from action, and, if it acts, to facilitate repression, thus confirming the between urban planning and maintenance of social order.