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Systemic approach of the links between urban dynamics, life environment and insecurity : situational prevention as a tool and stake of urban sustainable planning and social cohesion policies ?

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International audience; Managing and controlling city whilst guaranteeing the social cohesion and the life quality is an objective of the urban sustainable development. Thus, the life environments and urban atmospheres that include a security dimension imply a geographical and town-planning thinking. These research activities concern the importance the city-dweller attributes to the security issues. Insecurity can sometimes explain some places repellentness and consequently the daily and residential mobilities. These displacements impact on the places economic and social functioning. Urban insecurity produces negative externalities that can be quantified. Aware of the differential attractiveness that some urban spaces have, the responsible of territory fitting usually agree on the need to rethink the city functional organization. They adopt a global approach that includes the idea of urban environment securing. One of its operational materializations is the method called "situational prevention". It aims at reducing at the same time the possibility to commit a crime and the anxiogene potential of some spatial layouts. The systemic approach, allows presenting the interrelations that link urban dynamics, life environment and insecurity feeling. The objective of this systemic analysis is to help understanding and, eventually decide, public authorities that require advice in the prospect of the urban spaces sustainable development.