Video surveillance, gender, and the safety of public urban space: “peeping tom” goes high tech?

Urban Geography

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 257-278

  Koskela, Hille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fear of crime; Gender; Public space; Urban planning; Video surveillance

Indexed keywords

CRIME; PUBLIC SPACE; URBAN DESIGN; VIDEOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036434011     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.23.3.257     Document Type: Article

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