{"title":"Loretta Lees","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLoretta Lees\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intersections of urban geography and social justice with keen insight and critical analysis. Her works, including titles like \u003cem\u003eDefensible Space on the Move\u003c\/em\u003e, challenge conventional understandings of city spaces and their impacts on communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful examinations of urban policy, gentrification, and the evolving dynamics of public and private spaces. Her writing engages with contemporary debates on how cities shape, and are shaped by, social forces and power structures.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"defensible-space-on-the-move-by-elanor-warwick-9781119500438","title":"Defensible Space on the Move","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth theoretically informed and empirically rich, \u003ci\u003eDefensible Space on the Move\u003c\/i\u003e makes 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eCritically examines the geographical concept of 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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvaluates the movement, mobility, and mobilisation of defensible space from the US to the UK and into English housing policy \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 nor disproven scientifically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470402273516,"sku":"9781119500438","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781119500438-defensible-space-on-the-move.jpg?v=1775218465"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/loretta-lees.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}