Las fronteras blandas: una aproximación conceptual a la seguridad urbana desde la perspectiva del urbanismo

Abstract

Public space as the platform of urban collective action is the main realm where safety is manifested in a city. So that there is a close correlation between these two components: safety and space. The second one, although it may not be the cause of unsafety, it facilitates it, or it inhibits it. In this text we would like to verify to what extent this safety of public space depends on whether it is porous, integrated and mixed, or it favors a continuous occupation. Based on an experience of over 5 decades of research on this relationship, this article seeks to look from a transversal and updated view on urban safety and in a markedly urbanistic approach. Safety provides social welfare, and those I call ‘Soft Borders’ as guarantors of porosity, integration and urban mixing, endow public space with life and give it greater urbanity.