Suburbs and urban peripheries are almost always talked about in the same way: as places where something is wrong. Too much crime, too little safety, too many strangers. But what if that story is more made up than true?
At the outskirts of European cities there are many laboratories of coexistence — spaces where residents, often with very little institutional support, build forms of solidarity and community that top-down security policies have repeatedly failed to create.
We talked with Simone Tulumello, researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, who has spent years studying the relationship between fear, space, and urban planning in urban contexts.
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