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Argues that Bogota, Colombia, is representative of cities whose memories have been destroyed, thereby robbing people of reference points to their identity. Residents have become fearful, & they no longer have any trust, which makes them insecure & full of rage. It is maintained that loss of a sense of belonging makes civility impossible & eventually results in a negation of citizenship. TV becomes the mechanism through which citizens relate to the city, & the images that are constructed by the media only reinforce imaginaries of fear. Urban processes are explored as processes of communication, emphasizing that it is necessary to examine what makes people take refuge in small private spaces. Fear is said to go beyond violence & danger in the streets to involve long-lasting processes that encompass the cultural anguish that stems from the loss of collective roots in cities; how the city normalizes differences; & the order imposed on residents by the city. How people confront these new fears resulting from the erosion of sociability is examined. J. Lindroth