{"product_id":"defensible-space-on-the-move-loretta-lees-9781119500438","title":"Defensible Space on the Move: Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoth theoretically informed and empirically rich, \u003ci\u003eDefensible Space \u003c\/i\u003emakes an important conceptual contribution to policy mobilities thinking, to policy \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e practice, and also to practitioners handling of complex spatial concepts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCritically examines the geographical concept Defensible Space, which has been influential in designing out crime to date, and has been applied to housing estates in the UK, North America, Europe and beyond\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEvaluates the movement\/mobility\/mobilisation of defensible space from the US to the UK and into English housing policy \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e practice\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the multiple ways the concept of defensible space was interpreted and implemented, as it circulated from national to local level and within particular English housing estates \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCritiquing and pushing forwards work on policy mobilities, the authors illustrate for the first time how transfer mechanisms worked at both a policy \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e practitioner level\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDrawing on extensive archival research, oral histories and in-depth interviews, this important book reveals defensible space to be ambiguous, uncertain in nature, neither proven or disproven scientifically\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Loretta Lees, Elanor Warwick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1119500435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781119500438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Loretta Lees","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44067117531391,"sku":"9781119500438","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dfaee67b-8403-4741-ab69-d3693f5a8b04.jpg?v=1685411297","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/defensible-space-on-the-move-loretta-lees-9781119500438","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}