The publication of Oscar Newman's Defensible Space: Crime Prevention Through Urban Design received a great deal of attention from the US press and television. Despite the criticisms Newman's ideas spread extensively throughout England and in 1978 defensible space had ‘become common currency amongst housing managers, architects and even tenants’. This chapter shows that Newman is clearly one of Stone's ‘soft’ policy transfer entrepreneurs facilitating a broad diffusion across disciplines and networks, whereas Sheena Wilson can be seen as part of the ‘hard’ policy transfer bureaucracy. It also shows all of the behaviours occurring in relation to defensible space and shows that despite her use of quantitative science Alice Coleman was not considered as part of the British quantitative geography ‘turn’. Utopia on Trial was written in the form of a courtroom trial, with suspect design features and Coleman's evidence ‘cross‐examined’.
Defensible Space Is Mobilised in England
Defensible Space on the Move ; 32-63
2022-02-19
32 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Wiley | 2022
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