Siting prisons, sighting communities : geographies of objection in a planning process

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Description :
This paper reviews the planning process for a Scottish prison located near a former mining village. First,analysing the letters of objection submitted by residents offers an opportunity to explore local views about prison and community and to relate these to the unique social and spatial history of the area. Second, it examines the geographies of objection responses to the development proposal: the emotional, temporal, and spatial. It concludes that Georg Simmel’s concept of the stranger offers a useful analytic in understanding how the quality of proximal remoteness that prisons and other unwanted developments constitute participates in a constantly evolving sense of the local.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Environment and planning A, issn : 0308-518X, 2014, vol. 46, n°. 3, p. 550-565, nombre de pages : 16, Références bibliographiques : 2 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Pion