Segregative Power of Violence in Belfast and Naples

Some preliminary remarks should be made before entering into the body of this chapter. The investigation presented here focuses on the built environment as an expression of a multicultural and multifactor urban demand by a transforming society (Sassen, 1991). ‘Population groups, differentiated by criteria of ability, age, gender, class, ethnicity, sexual preference and religion, have different claims on the city for a full life and, in particular, on the built environment. How can planners contrive to make positive responses to these claims?’ (Sandercock, 2000).