A new apartheid? The spatial implications of fear of crime in Cape Town, South Africa

Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large‐scale digitization

“…In NE, for example, the establishment of the New England Botanical Club during the 1890s (NEBC, ) preceded a surge and peak in collecting activity associated with prolific botanical expeditions in the region coinciding with the ‘Golden Age’ of plant collecting in Europe and North America (Whittle, ; Musgrave et al ., ). In SA, collection efforts began much later, peaking during the Apartheid Era (1948–1994), and declined thereafter under the New Democratic Rule, concomitant with the general economic decline of the country and concern for public safety (Ferreira & Harmse, ; Lemanski, ). In AU, the mass immigration of Europeans in 1948 after World War II included numerous highly skilled professionals (Price, ; Leuner, ) and coincided with an enormous increase in botanical collecting.…”

Differences between Cohousing and Gated Communities. A Literature Review

“…In short, cohousing was not created to ensure safety; however, in gated communities, even if some scholars do not stress safety as the primary goal (see Rosen and Razin ; Sanchez, Lang, and Dhavale ; Wu and Webber ), a majority of scholars indicate safety as one of the primary aims, in particular in the United States, Latin America, and South Africa (Low , ; Davis ; Caldeira ; Ellin 2001; Coy and Pohler ; Landman and Schönteich ; Jurgens and Gnad ; Landman ; Lemanski , ; Rodgers ; Coy ).…”

Public Space in non‐Western Contexts: Practices of Publicness and the Socio‐spatial Entanglement

“…Much of this transition, arguably, is attributable to the policy transfer between the Global South and North, a process in which urban policies conceived in other cities, inter alia Western ones, are adopted and adjusted to address local issues (Peck and Theodore, ; McCann, ; Swanson, ) . Resultantly, many non‐Western cities have witnessed the establishment of consumption‐oriented and tightly regulated business improvement districts (BIDs) (Ward, ; Didier et al ), the privatisation and/or Disneyfication of public space to satiate economic interests (Stanilov, ; Kurfürst, ; Gaubatz, ; ) and the implementation of CCTV surveillance technology to curb ‘unruly’ or ‘unsafe’ elements in public space (Walton, ; Norris et al ; Lemanski, ; Firmino et al ). Economic restructuring and transformation have caused intensifying social polarisation and spatial segregation in many non‐Western countries, and privatisation and regulation are thus expected by cohorts of urban policy makers and elites to contribute to an ordered, secured and sanitised environment with a painstakingly maintained veneer of safety and civility (Caldeira, ; Connell, ).…”