Essays about: "scanscape"

Found 1 essay containing the word scanscape.

  1. 1. The Urban Spaces of fear : How the perceived spaces in Rio de Janeiro contribute to urban exclusion and fortification.

    University essay from Latinamerika-institutet

    Author : Erick Modén; [2013]
    Keywords : Urban fortification; urban exclusion; scanscape; Rio de Janeiro; Los Angeles; drug war; gated communities; social spaces; abstract spaces.;

    Abstract : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second biggest city is both seen as a leisurely paradise and a dangerous drug-warzone at the same time, two contra-dictory spatial images. In Rio de Janeiro, the urban conflict between the rich, formal city and the favela and the police and the favela has produced an abstract spatial image of the favela and its residents as being violent. READ MORE