Introduction to Urban geography

Initial questions for auditory before starting the presentation
What is the relationship between Geography and the City?
What do you mean by “our mind maps”?
Where do you think there are scary cities?
Why can a city be scary?
Main speech:
The authors of this article state that “whether we live in the city, near the city, or in the countryside, we understand the city based on a combination of images and experiences”.
This article is the result of a series of “Terrible Cities” sessions organized for the 2008 Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Boston, Massachusetts.

Introduction:
The terms "Fear" and "City".
These terms are among the topics studied in the context of interests among geographers. But in fact, the connection between the terms “Fear” and “City” is not new. For instance, according to the authors, in 2001 “Fear and the City” urban studies and 2003 “Geography and Politics of Fear” were special studies.
And then, the authors mainly contain analyzes focused on the fear of crime and the politics of fear. But this article we are analyzing emphasizes “fears related to the individual personality” and “fears related to the personality of others”.
In it, three sessions were analyzed by the authors:
1) "Fear and Public Space",
2) "Fear of others"
3) "Fear and mistrust"
It is analyzed that each exercise addresses "scary" cities in different ways.
What constitutes a scary city depends on several factors.
Also, In this work, Shirlow and Pain's discussion about "crime fear" was cited.
Accordingly, in cities, the fear factor is often based on a person’s identity - be it based on race, class, ethnicity, or gender.
So, for decades, both – urban and feminist geographers have thought about the relationship between social markers and the city.
According to the authors, geographers have constantly studied how race, gender, and sexuality become markers in the construction of the ideal urban citizen. As a result, mobility, access to housing, and work affect overall feelings within the city.
Geographers also noted how some social groups experienced fear or became targets of fear. For example, Johnsen, Klock, and Mey investigated how daycare centers that provide much-needed services for the homeless are “places of care or fear”. Mei-Po Kwan examined cases of how racism, driven by fear, affects the lives of Muslim women in the post-9/11 US. Sandberg and Tollefsen analyzed gender differences in attitudes toward Swedish serial rapist Haga Man (Hagamannen - Kurt Niklas Lindgren) in a study of how fear affects mobility and the use of public spaces.