Surveillance in urban nightscapes

The socio-spatial effects of video-surveillance in urban nightlife districts  

Problem definition

The examination of the whole surveillance network – visitors, CCTV technologies, surveillors, public authorities and entrepreneurs – and its effects on the production of public spaces in urban nightlife districts.

Approach

Elaboration of a interdisciplinary theoretical framework. A mixed-methods approach (ethnographs, interviews, discourse analysis, questionnaires, participatory workshops) will be employed to examine the practices, emotions and thoughts of various groups in nightscapes in three Dutch cities. 

Aim

Generate recommendations about how video-surveillance can be (re)configured to maximize its potential to produce socially inclusive and heterogeneous nightscapes.