Crime, Bodies and Space: Towards an Ethical Approach to Urban Policies in the Information Age : Routledge : 9780367075996 : 0367075997 : 16 Dec 2019 : "With cities increasingly following rigid rules for designing out crime and producing spaces under surveillance, this book asks how information shapes bodies, space, and, ultimately, policymaking. In recent years, public spaces have changed in Western countries, with the urban realm turning more and more into a monitored, privatised, homogeneous and aseptic space that has lost its character, uniqueness and diversity in the name of 'security'. This underpins precise moral and political choices in terms ofwhat a space should be, how it can be used, and by whom. These choices generate material consequences concerning urban inequality and freedom, or otherwise, of movement. Based on ethnographic and autoethnographic explorations in London's 'criminal' spaces, this book illustrates how rules, policies and moral values, far from being abstract