This article examines how business improvement associations (BIAs) become involved in
implementing public video surveillance systems in Canadian cities. The approach of BIAs to …

This article contributes to international debates about public-area streetscape video
surveillance by assessing the Canadian policy context. Based on findings from an ongoing …

This article examines the evaluation and legitimization of city‐street video surveillance in
Ontario, Canada. We demonstrate how monitoring programs are promoted, designed, and …

This article examines redeployable special event public camera surveillance in the city of
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We show how a policy discourse of situational …

Social monitoring is often explained in terms of top-down or hierarchal forms of power, which
is reflected in the reliance on neo-Marxist and disciplinary society analytical frameworks in …

This article explores the political economy of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) in Australia,
providing new insights into the relationship between government policy and its economic …

Panoptic cities Geographers have been using and abusing Michel Foucault's work on the
Panopticon for some time. Lately in the United Kingdom, and elsewhere, the idea of the …

This paper interrogates the complex role of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in
securing and shaping conduct in public retail and 'entertainment'spaces in Canadian cities …

This article explores the surveillance work of municipal corporate security (MCS) units in
Canadian cities. Drawing on analysis of freedom of information requests, we document the …

This article is a national report for Norway and Denmark within the international comparative
project “UrbanEye–On the Threshold to Urban Panopticon?” 1 This report is from the first …