Urban Violence and Insecurity: An Introductory Roadmap

This issue of Environment and Urbanization seeks
to understand better the phenomenon of urban
violence and insecurity, to document the causes,
costs and consequences, and to highlight community-
based innovative solutions to the problem.
This introduction, therefore, has the challenge of
simultaneously reconciling these two aspects – it
needs to provide a basic roadmap of urban violence
as a background to the papers in this volume –
while also highlighting some of the concerns raised
in the articles themselves. These include new
insights into long-known violence-related problems,
as well as newer “cutting-edge” issues.