How does architecture operate as a security technology? This contribution sets out how reflexive research and urban studies approach built environments political inclusion exclusion instruments. It first presents this role is understood to in the respective scholarly fields, then illustrates its ambivalent operation with two mini-case centering on Bogotá Zürich. In doing so, seeks familiarize r...

The use and implementation of public open street Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance systems in Central Business Districts (CBDs) in South Africa solely for the purpose of crime control (reducing street crime) or crime prevention (deterrence) has in South Africa been a relatively new intervention within the broader context of crime prevention programmes. One of the drawbacks to its im...