Reflections on Security, the City and Insecurity

Authors

  • Ana Rugiero Pérez Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This paper presents different concepts which are related to forms, spaciality and uses which in turn are connected to people's perception of security. Such asociation is based in a semiotic viewpoint of spaciality. Is is postulated that the problem shoud be approached at a social level, promoting security as each and everyone's objetive where urbanization and good manners should meet and stressing urban accesibility as more efficient and with a highter degree of solidarity when compared to the atomization of sale semipublic areas.

Author Biography

Ana Rugiero Pérez, Universidad de Chile

Arquitecta, Académica e Investigadora de la FAU, U de Chile. Profesora de Cursos de Teoría y Crítica de la U. Mayor y de Teoría II de la U. de La República.