Security is complex and part of our daily lives. One explanation of security, according to Buzan (1991) (cited in McDonald, 2008, p.70) is that “security is the absence of threats”. Generally, it deals with issues related to safety, which can be physical, financial, social or emotional. However, it can also apply to a number of concepts such as risk, danger and segregation (Carter et al., 2008b, p.4). Social, cultural and material practices produce security (Carter et al., 2008a, p.180) and, in combination with material entities in inner-city areas, mediate different experiences and understandings of individual security in our common worlds (Carter et al ., 2008b, p.6). Because the city is a place of mixing, difference and diversity (Carter et al., 2008b, p.15), real and imagined fear of “others” has become an intrinsic part of urban life (Watson, 2008, pp.115 -116). Positive and negative imaginaries of city life, fears and insecurities constantly produce and destroy safety in our shared worlds and "sustain segregation and socio-spatial division", an idea postulated by Sophie Watson (Carter et al., 2008b, p.15). According to Ken Booth, people can only achieve true security if they do not deprive others of it (McDonald, 2008, p.70). This assignment will explore this issue and use the materiality of inner-city areas, under the guise of gated communities, sport utility vehicles, and closed-circuit television and surveillance to examine safety among inhabitants residing in these built-up residential areas. Insecurities and fears in the city'Illocutionary speech acts', an idea postulated by Ole Wæver (1995) (cited in McDonald, 2008, pp.51-60), mediated through the media alongside heightened levels of m..... .center of the map......central areas of cities (Carter and Davey Smith, 2008, p.172). The city as a built material form highlighted that bricks, mortar, houses and walls are deeply involved in shaping the safety of cities. The city center is often subjected to different types of segregation and defense strategies against individuals different from us and that this is induced by a battle against individual insecurity (The Open University, 2013b). Furthermore, these examples illustrate the materiality of bodies in these inner-city populations and the ways in which these contribute to stereotypical beliefs and prejudices of the “other” or foreigner (Carter et al., 2008, p. 183). Materiality through the individual and the social are inextricably linked, in the search for greater security; individuals may actually become more insecure and fearful than before (Watson, 2008, p.129).