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"Cleaning Up" Cities, Sliding towards American Brasilias

By Jonathan Simor

Suburbanization has perhaps been the central feature of the reorganization of power and property in the United States over the past half-century. Contemporary policies of crime control and those of suburban land management are intertwined in myriad ways. There?s plenty of work to be done in investigating dialectics here; some of Jonathan's recent work suggests that homicide has been a central conceptual and material pivot in the post-war period's respatialization of capital-as-real-property. Similarities closer to the surface are patent as well. In addition to managing risk and minimizing security contingencies at the expense of other values historically valorized in Western democracies, both suburbanization and governing through crime have been driven by top-down policymaking, typified by phenomena like Celebration, Florida or the War on Drugs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on February 10, 2010 (boomark / email).