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Overview
- Research context
- Cosmo City context
- Methodology
- Results
- Discussion
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Comfortably cosmopolitan? How patterns of social cohesion vary with crime and fear Anine Kriegler and Mark Shaw Overview Research context Cosmo City context Methodology Results Discussion Research context South
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Research context
- South African Cities Network’s reference
group on urban safety
- Developing city level safety indicators
- Case study on social cohesion, safety and
perceptions in Cosmo City
- Time
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Cosmo City
- Mixed‐income, mixed‐use PPP
- 5 000 RDP, 3 000 credit‐linked, 3 300
bonded, 1 000 apartments + schools, parks, retail, commercial, industrial etc.
- 70 000+
- Building from 2005, residential completed
2012
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Cosmo City
- Designed explicitly for social inclusion and
cohesion for diverse income levels
- Shared spatial use – multi‐purpose centre
- Neighbourhood design
- Naming
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0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35
Average annual household income
Ward 100 Cosmo City Ward 97 Honeydew etc. Ward 113 Greater Diepsloot
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Methodology
- Interviews – City of Joburg and developers
- Survey: demographics, security, local
governance, social cohesion, fear, perceptions, experiences of crime (25 Qs)
- Based on VOCS but mobile
- 400 households, matching housing type
proportions
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Results: social cohesion
- 85% feel part of local community
- 73% feel part of whole community
- 85% proud to be resident of Cosmo
- 73% interact with diverse backgrounds
- 87% either satisfied with or keen to interact
more
Strong social cohesion
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Results: fear of crime
- 50% always feel safe in Cosmo
- 31% in VOCS
- 7% feel unsafe in public space
- 37% in VOCS
Relatively low fear of crime
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Results: crime victimisation
- About 90% said household has experienced
crime in the last 5 years
- Rates x3+ greater than in VOCS
- 6% said member of household has been
murdered in last 5 years High victimisation rates – some implausibly
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High social cohesion + low fear of crime + (too) high self‐reported crime victimisation
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Discussion
- Mobile, informal format encourage
telescoping?
- Actually crime level perception?
- Social cohesion → share crime informaon,
blur household boundaries, raise perception of victimisation even while reducing fear
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