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The demand for security by urban elites has driven the subtle transformation of their neighbourhoodsand the wider citywith a more closed and fragmented public realm, 'anti-disorder' design strategies and increasing control. This article explores signature elements of securityscapes in affluent domains of Mexico City and London, two very different cities yet with similarly fragmenting and inhibiting modes of urban design. Extensive immersion, systematic observation and visual matrixes are used to counterpose key design elements and atmospheric qualities of the securityscape: securitisation, privacy and fortification, transforming the 'path-portal-place' elements of the city into a logic around 'road-gate-enclosure'.

Objective: This pilot study assessed the effectiveness and acceptability of personalized nutrition intervention for mobile food pantry users. Methods: The 8-week intervention recruited 25 participants in the control (n = 13) and in the treatment (n = 12) groups (60% obese). Personalized nutrition and health reports were generated based on baseline dietary intake and health status. The treatment group received weekly phone counseling and nutrition education, while the control group was only contacted to ensure compliance. The primary outcomes were 8-week changes in weight and diet quality score, assessed by the Healthy Eating Index. Results: The acceptability of the intervention was assessed by the eligibility rate, recruitment rate (62.5%), and drop-out rate (36%). Following the intervention, there was a significant decrease in weight (mean ± standard deviation, −2.3% ± 2.4%) among all participants (p < 0.05). Diet-quality improved (4.54% in treatment vs. 0.18% in control), but was ultimately non-significant (p = 0.284). Conclusions and Implications: A personalized nutrition education intervention in mobile food pantry users may be an acceptable and effective intervention to encourage weight loss through dietary improvements.

This chapter presents the role urban literacy has played in the stakeholder engagement and gender equity efforts introduced to strengthen land governance in San Andrés Cholula's periurban communities. The chapter uses focus group discussion (FGD) from eight urban literacy workshops in five peri-urban communities of San Andrés Cholula. These FGDs were conducted during a period of 3 months (i.e. July to September 2019). The chapter is structured as follows. It starts with historical review of Cholula's sociopolitical office system and a critical evaluation of MPSUD based on the principles of good governance. Then follows a discussion of the process of the urban literacy workshops. This is then followed by a discussion of the role of women in strengthening land governance through urban literacy based on the outcomes of the workshops. Finally, the chapter concludes with emphasis on how urban literacy is a veritable strategy for strengthening land governance and for enabling inclusive participation in policy making.

Non-state space: the strategic ejection of dangerous and high maintenance urban space. Territory, Politics, Governance. Some commentators have characterized so-called 'no-go' areas as sites in which the exercise of authority is prevented. Here we suggest that many such spaces are produced by state, policing and citizen repertoires that aim to minimize the costs and risks of engaging, supporting and servicing such spaces and their populations. In this article, we locate strategies of public spending, policing and political action that offer a governing logic in which neighbourhoods are essentially subtracted from the constitution of the city. During such designations, the assurances of citizenship, vitality of civic institutions and presence of policing may be partially or wholly suspended. We present a framework for the identification of such strategies in which these forms of social, political and spatial exiting are described as being autotomic in nature -spaces that are ejected in order to avoid losses or further damage to the body politic of the city in ways akin to the response of certain animals that protect themselves from predation by shedding a limb or body part. This term adds force and depth to assessments of the ways both temporary and more sustained exits by policing, management and state servicing are designed in order to avoid responsibility over or engagement with spaces deemed a threat in order to maintain the integrity of the remaining, included city. KEYWORDSUrban governance, territory, social control, policing, neighbourhoods, urban policy, urban security, anti-social behaviour 免于猎杀的反应进行驱逐的空间。此一概念，增加了力量与深度来评估当代及更为持续的警备、管理与 国家服务退出，以避免负责或涉入被视为威胁的地区来维系剩馀包含的城市之完整性的方式。 关键词 城市治理, 领土, 社会控制, 警备, 邻里, 城市政策, 城市安全, 反社会行为 RÉSUMÉ L'espace non-étatique: l'expulsion stratégique du dangéreux espace urbain dont le niveau de besoins est très élevé. Territory, Politics, Governance. Certains observateurs ont caractérisé des 'zones d'accès interdit' comme des sites où l'exercice du pouvoir est entravé. Cet article laisse supposer que beaucoup de ces espaces sont délimités par des répertoires de l'État, du maintien de l'ordre et des citoyens qui cherchent à minimiser les coûts et les risques d'engager et de soutenir de tels espaces et leurs habitants et de fournir des services. Cet article cherche des stratégies relatives aux dépenses publiques, au maintien de l'ordre et à l'action politique qui présentent une logique constitutive à partir duquel les voisinages sont en principe soustraits de l'établissement de la ville. Pendant de telles désignations, l'assurance de la citoyenneté, de la vitalité des institutions civiques et de la présence du maintien de l'ordre peuvent être partiellement ou totalement suspendues. On présente un cadre pour identifier de telles stratégies où on décrit les façons sociale, politique et spatiale de sortir comme autotomique -des espaces qui sont expulsés pour éviter des pertes ou des dégâts supplémentaires au tissu politique de la ville d'une manière qui ressemble à la répons...