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Criminalized deviant behavior and strategies for its prevention have a strong impact on moral and political discourses within society. As Michel Foucault argued, crime can be used by dominant social classes to consolidate their hold on power. Yet, crime also proves tobe a very productive sector in a purely materialistic sense. We know from Karl Marx that crime doss not just create courtrooms, jails, laws and police, it also leads to representations of crime in the human and natural scien- ces, the mass media and the fine arts. Undoubtedly, one of crime's biggest impacts is in the security industry, architecture and the design of public space. The article demonstrates this by using a range of evidence, including the reporting of a brutal murder in one of Vienna's largest public housing estates in the late 1980s. The public discussion following the crime brought about the introduction of crime-prevention ideas from the USA, as weil as a rare alliance between police authorities and feminist campaigners. One important outcome was the gentrification of some parts of the city, while a number of measures were implemented with the aim of making public areas safer at night. ; Criminalized deviant behavior and strategies for its prevention have a strong impact on moral and political discourses within society. As Michel Foucault argued, crime can be used by dominant social classes to consolidate their hold on power. Yet, crime also proves tobe a very productive sector in a purely materialistic sense. We know from Karl Marx that crime doss not just create courtrooms, jails, laws and police, it also leads to representations of crime in the human and natural scien- ces, the mass media and the fine arts. Undoubtedly, one of crime's biggest impacts is in the security industry, architecture and the design of public space. The article demonstrates this by using a range of evidence, including the reporting of a brutal murder in one of Vienna's largest public housing estates in the late 1980s. The public discussion following the crime brought about the introduction of crime-prevention ideas from the USA, as weil as a rare alliance between police authorities and feminist campaigners. One important outcome was the gentrification of some parts of the city, while a number of measures were implemented with the aim of making public areas safer at night.

Der Verfasser befasst sich in den Kapiteln 1 bis 3 mit Begriffsdefinitionen, Aufgabenbeschreibungen und einer allgemeinen Beschreibung der Zusammenhänge zwischen dem Raum, der Aufgabe, dessen planmäßige Veränderungen zu betreiben, und den jeweiligen ethischen Bestimmungsgründen. Ausdrücklich wird darauf hingewiesen, dass die Aussagen dieses Beitrages im Wesentlichen nur für Deutschland gelten. In den Kapiteln 4 bis 9 werden sodann im zeitlichen Ablauf von der vorletzten Jahrhundertwende an die Zusammenhänge zwischen Ethik und Raumplanung in fünf Zeitepochen an ausgewählten Sachverhalten beschrieben. Im Kapitel 8 wird die Situation in der früheren DDR analysiert und im Kapitel 10 werden ausgewählte Vorschläge unterbreitet, wie bei einer Modernisierung der Raumplanung neben einer Vielzahl von sachlichen Erfordernissen auch ethische Prinzipien verstärkt in die Überlegungen einbezogen werden sollten.