Culture aspects
Culture aspects in is a way to::urban planning have been classically addressed in terms of urban arts and city planning. Cultural resources have become recognized as an important component of urban space. Growing features are cultural policy and practice. Relevant issues are: societal needs, socio-economic issues, the natural/structural/infrastructural environment, and social aspects of urban planning.
For the purpose of Securipedia, aspects known as "security culture" from the technological point of view are safety aspects.
Contents
- Culture aspects are an important ingredient of citizen is part of::resilience that urban planning can support and that, in turn, urban planning can take advantage of to tackle security aspects.
- Existing public security cultures influence the criteria for societal acceptance of urban security planning decisions and results, and for the addressing of security aspects in that context.
- Urban structure and cultural artefacts resulting from urban planning influence a society and its culture. That may involve and challenge ethics aspects.
- The concept of (security) culture is important for effective security related urban planning.
- Activating is a way to::civic culture can also be a method to use in urban planning in order to efficiently address security aspects.
Importance of culture aspects
Security issues that could arise if security culture is not appropriately addressed in urban planning include the following:
- Planning irrespectiv of, or even against, societal norms and values
- Raising crime incidents
- Increasing citizens' perception of insecurity
- Increasing gap between felt and factual security
- Loss of legitimacy of public and planning authorities
Concept of culture
Examples
- Technically, culture is linked to cognition and refers to people’s assumptions about the world.[1]
- The classical policy concept of political culture centres on norms and values guiding citizens’ assessments, expectations and behaviour consequences.[2]
- Culture is regarded as a threshold criteria for defining when a society will accept a problem (such as a security threat/challenge) to be solved.[3]
- Cultures prescribe members' relations with the community and how these members orient their actions.[4]
- The cognitive dimension of culture is especially important to address aspects such as perception of causes::vulnerability and building of cognitive foundations for citizen causes::resilience.
Approaches to addressing aspects of security culture in urban planning
Relevant schools of thought
The following approaches/schools of thought are of particular relevance for covering culture-related security aspects in urban planning:
- strives towards::Cultural criminology
- strives towards::Community safety approach;
- strives towards::Security culture
- strives towards::Perception of (in)security;
- strives towards::Environmental design (behaviour setting);
- Checklists for dimension consideration
- can be done by::Stakeholder-rated methods
- can be done by::Determination of security aspects - methods for urban planners
Footnotes and references
- ↑ E.g. R.M. Keesing: Theories of Culture. In: Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 3 (1974), pp. 73-97.
- ↑ G.A. Almond/S. Verba: The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Princeton, NJ: University of Princeton Press, 1963.
- ↑ A. Schütz: Gesammelte Aufsätze. Bd.3: Studien zur phänomenologischen Philosophie. Den Haag: Nijhoff, 1972, pp. 156-157.
- ↑ H.S. Baum: Culture Matters–But It Shouldn't Matter Too Much. In: M.A. Burayidi (ed.): Urban Planning in a Multicultural Society, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000, pp. 115-136 (p. 115).
