Anna Barker
University of Leeds
13 Papers
29 Citations
Anna Barker is an academic researcher from University of Leeds. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fear of crime & Public space. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 13 publications. Previous affiliations of Anna Barker include University of Bradford.
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Papers
Communicating security? Policing urban spaces and control signals
TL;DR: This article provided a sympathetic critique of dominant assumptions implied in this policy shift concerning the reassurance function of policing and provided insights into the unintended effects of formal controls that have implications for our understanding of local social order.
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Everyday encounters with difference in urban parks: forging ‘openness to otherness’ in segmenting cities
TL;DR: In a context of hyper-diversity and social polarisation, it has been suggested that public parks constitute crucial arenas in which to safeguard deliberative democracy and foster social relations that bind loosely connected strangers as discussed by the authors.
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Mediated Conviviality and the Urban Social Order: Reframing the Regulation of Public Space
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that social order is not spontaneous but needs to be facilitated and that the importance of safety to the development of a convivial public realm is recognized.
Thinking forward through the past: Prospecting for urban order in (Victorian) public parks
TL;DR: In this article, a framework for analysing the interconnected categories of spaces of experience and horizons of expectation across times is proposed, based on the heritage and lived experiences of a specific Victorian park in London.
Park futures: Excavating images of tomorrow’s urban green spaces
TL;DR: In the UK, parks are at a critical juncture as to their future role, prospects and s... as discussed by the authors, and they need to be considered as a central feature in the Victorian image of the city.