Concern around personal safety is a significant factor in constraining women’s access to and use of public space. One strategy presented to address this involves altering the design of built environments. However, tension ...

This picture was taken in a community park in Costa Rica. The fear of crime has caused people to take measures which they believe could protect them against delinquency; as a consequence, many public spaces are being fenced ...

The 'dominant conceptions' related to 'public sphere' and public space' present in Habermas, Arendt, Sennett and Davis are analyzed, exposing their ideas, and the reflections of their main critics. It is argued that the ...

Since the early XIX century, both house and domestic space have gone through a series of technological, programmatic and typological transformations in accordance with the changes in dwelling practices. These range from ...