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Privatization of Security and the Production of Space in Mexico City: Challenges for Urban Planning

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  • Claudia Zamorano

    (Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City, Mexico)

  • Guénola Capron

    (Autonomous Metropolitan University - Azcapotzalco (UAM-A), Mexico City, Mexico)

Abstract

By observing the process of privatization of public security in Mexican cities, the authors focus on the social production of the urban space. It was defined by Lefebvre (1991) as the set of practices carried out by the State and civil society throughout history that gradually form and transform cities. The authors argue that the intervention of private agents in the production of security services not only weakens the State's monopoly on the use of force and exacerbates segregation, but it also diminishes the State's capacity to intervene in questions of urban (e-planning).

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  • Claudia Zamorano & Guénola Capron, 2013. "Privatization of Security and the Production of Space in Mexico City: Challenges for Urban Planning," International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), IGI Global, vol. 2(4), pages 59-74, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jepr00:v:2:y:2013:i:4:p:59-74
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    1. Alexandra Abello Colak & Melanie Lombard & Valeria Guarneros-Meza, 2023. "Framing urban threats: A socio-spatial analysis of urban securitisation in Latin America and the Caribbean," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(14), pages 2741-2762, November.

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