Defensible Space on the Move: Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 10 March 2022
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Defensible Space is a groundbreaking work that makes a significant conceptual contribution to the field of policy mobilities. It combines theoretical insights with empirical richness, providing valuable insights into policy and practice. This book is particularly relevant to practitioners who are dealing with complex spatial concepts.

Defensible Space critically examines the geographical concept of defensible space, which has been influential in designing out crime to date. It has been applied to housing estates in various countries, including the UK, North America, Europe, and beyond. The book evaluates the movement, mobility, and mobilization of defensible space from the United States to the United Kingdom and its impact on English housing policy and practice.

Exploring the multiple ways in which the concept of defensible space was interpreted and implemented, the book demonstrates how it circulated from national to local levels and within specific English housing estates. It also critiques and pushes forward work on policy mobilities, illustrating how transfer mechanisms worked at both policy and practitioner levels.

Drawing on extensive archival research, oral histories, and in-depth interviews, this important book reveals defensible space to be ambiguous, uncertain in nature, and neither proven nor disproven scientifically. It sheds light on the complexities and challenges associated with implementing defensible space policies and practices and provides valuable insights for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars interested in the study of spatial governance and security.

Weight: 614g
Dimension: 243 x 149 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119500445