Living precariously: property guardianship and the flexible city

Privatopia on Trial? Property Guardianship in the Suburbs

This paper explores how distinctions between private and public underpin the concept of guardianship that has been applied to the understanding and control of crime in residential areas. Specifically, it focuses on the guardianship of private property in (affluent) residential suburbs. First, the paper discusses the concept of "natural surveillance'' and identifies its role in the crime prevent...

Planting the Living City

Centrioles: Duplicating Precariously

To assemble a mitotic spindle and accurately segregate chromosomes to progeny, a cell needs to precisely regulate its centrosome number, a feat largely accomplished through the tight control of centriole duplication. Recent work showing that the overexpression of centriolar proteins can lead to the formation of multiple centrioles in the absence of pre-existing centrioles challenges the idea th...

Wolf, City Trees and Property Values City Trees and Property Values

Urban nature in all its forms—urban forests, parks, greenbelts—provides a range of benefits and services to society, most of which are not readily bought and sold. Economists calculate the “use value” of nature and ecosystems when tangible goods can be exchanged at market prices, such as timber or fisheries products. “Non-use values” set up a more complex economic puzzle. How can we estimate va...

The C.A.M.W. Guardianship Scheme

an increase of 188 cases during the year 1929." On the same date there were 1,327 defectives on licence from Institutions. The development, therefore, of this form of care during the intervening years has been steady, and is progressing, partly owing to the continued delay in the provision of institutional accommodation, and more particularly owing to its proved value. The Guardianship Society ...