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13 Crime Media Culture 3 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/cmctre13 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Crime Media Culture 2017, Vol. 13(1) 3-20 Urban interventionism as a The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permissions challenge to aesthetic order: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI 10.1177/1741659016631609 Towards an aesthetic criminology journals sagepubcom/home/cmc O)SAGE Andrew Millie Edge Hill University, UK Abstract This article is concerned with ideas of urban order and considers the scope for playing with people's expectations of order. In particular, drawing on criminological, philosophical and urban studies literatures, the article explores the notion of aesthetic order. The power to dictate aesthetic order is highlighted. The example of urban interventionism is used to consider those that challenge an approved aesthetic order. Here the article draws on cultural criminology and visual criminology, with illustrations coming from research in Toronto, Canada. Influenced by Alison Young's (2014a) conceptualisation of 'cities within the city', the article considers how different people using the same space have different or overlapping ways of understanding aesthetic order. Of relevance to criminology, it is contended that people or things that contravene an approved aesthetic order may face banishment and criminalisation. It is concluded that respect for such difference is required. An aesthetic criminology is suggested. Keywords Aesthetic criminology, aesthetic order, disorder, order, urban intervention Introduction This article is concerned with the aesthetic order of the city. It considers the scope for playing with people's expectations of aesthetic order and the extent to which deviations are criminalised. The article draws on various urban studies, criminological and philosophical literatures and is illus- trated using the example of urban interventions. The article draws on research conducted in Toronto, Canada during 2009. Toronto was one of the first places where the term 'urban interven- tion' was used in a 1999 gallery brochure for the Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art. 'Urban intervention' was used to describe artworks placed outside of traditional gallery spaces, Corresponding author: Andrew Millie, Department of Law and Criminology, Edge Hill University, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 4QP, UK. Email: Andrew.millie@edgehill.ac.uk

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