Professor Brownlow's interests and teaching span the urban environmental interface. Broadly, his research explores institutions of social control in cities - parks and police, for example - and how these institutions respond to the changing demands and expectations that accompany the transition to a post-industrial, post-Fordist urban economic model. Dr. Brownlow's writing explores the changing spatial and institutional dynamics that govern and influence fear and safety in the post-industrial metropolis. Dr. Brownlow received his Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University in 2003.
Journal Articles
An Archaeology of Fear and Environmental Change in Philadelphia, Geoforum (2006)
This paper examines how mechanisms of social control function to mediate human-environment relations and processes...
A Geography of Men's Fear, Geoforum (2005)
Men are at significantly greater risk than women to violent crime victimization in the U.S.,...
Books
Contributions to Books
Inherited Fragmentations and Narratives of Environmental Control in Entrepreneurial Philadelphia, In the Nature of Cities (2006)
Forthcoming
Keeping Up Appearances: Profiting from Patriarchy in the Nation's 'Safest' City, Urban Studies (2009)
This paper explores the history and the political and economic dividends of manipulating urban crime...