Sybille Reinke de Buitrago participated in the panel on “Urban (In)Securities: The City as Target. The Interplay between City Planning, Securitization and International Politics”, held on May 19, 2016 at AEDES, Berlin and organized by Dr. Nadine Godehardt, SWP and ANCB, The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory. Sybille Reinke de Buitrago discussed urban security in the context of international security. Applying a perspective that links perception, discourse, space and power, she highlighted the (inter)subjective sense of security in the urban space, the city as physical as well as social and political construction with inherent political meaning, and the city’s special characteristics and resulting vulnerabilities. Taking a look back to the events of 9/11 in the U.S. and how security measures changed for the city of Washington, DC afterwards, she illustrated the effects that the exploitation of a city’s vulnerabilities and the application of particular security measures in response have on a city and its citizens. Relatedly, she discussed the dynamics of securitization, in-/visibility of measures, and created incentives to maintain a feeling of insecurity. For more information, please see: http://www.ancb.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=16694988#.V0LKN5GLTDc