Abstract

Urban safety is a complex issue that has long been the focus of sociological studies. Only since 2017 it has found comprehensive regulation in the Italian legal system. Urban safety encompasses several dimensions, such as public security, which is a state domain, and other preventive safety measures, which are domains of territorial autonomies. Urban safety challenges certain pillars of the constitutional system, that is, what interests are concretely protected by safety rules and actually pursued by the responsible public authorities. The question that will guide the analysis is whether, at the legal level, urban safety holds its own conceptual autonomy and whether or not it represents a coherent development of the constitutional principles.