REUTERS – Although 60 percent of urban dwellers in developing nations have been crime victims in the past five years, the general fear of criminal and terrorist attack is out of proportion to actual levels of violence, the agency UN-HABITAT said in a 2007 report. This in turn prompts people and planners to focus far more on personal security than may be necessary and leads to literally putting up walls between the haves and the have nots.
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