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Zeiderman, Austin, Endangered City. The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016, pp. 290
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Sánchez-Calderón, Vladimir
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It addresses two very topical themes for urban studies. On the one hand, the progressive convergence between security and risks as urban government intervention policies. On the other, the progressive but incomplete abandonment of the “modernist vision” anchored to the idea of a better future that has been behind great ideas and urban projects in the last century and a half, as different researchers have already addressed ( Harvey 2003; Davis 1999). The two themes mentioned also converge in showing how in this context, the result can deepen and intensify the deep inequalities and spatial injustices that the metropolises of the Global South have suffered. Zeiderman takes Bogotá as a case study. The choice of the Colombian capital is precisely due to the “success” of the Bogota model in academic literature and urban public management at the international level in the last two decades