Insecurity and the new spatial practices in Brazilian cities

Authors

  • Eda Maria Goes
  • Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito

Keywords:

urban insecurity, spatial practices, social control, social and spatial fragmentation, middle cities

Abstract

New real estate launch products and closed residential spaces, occurs with increasing frequency in Brazilian cities and are based on the assumption that there is a general increase in violence, as we address urban insecurity, which involves individual coping, and privatizing adept practices of exacerbated control mechanisms. We researched deployment and appropriation of residential spaces in middle cities of São Paulo (Brazil). We identify social representations of the others, blamed for insecurity growing, and analyzed from everyday life perspective. We hypothesized that new forms of production of urban space with a tendency to social and spatial fragmentation, generate new practices.