1 Forthcoming in Urban Studies, volume 45 (2007). Feeling Insecure in Large Housing Estates: Tackling Unsicherheit in the Risk Society Manuel B. Aalbers and Sara Rancati Manuel B. Aalbers is in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York. He worked on a first draft of the present paper while he was in the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands. E-mail: m.b.aalbers@gmail.com. Sara Rancati is a PhD student in Urban and Local European Studies (UREBUR) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126 Milan, Italy. Phone: +39-02-6448-7485. Fax: +39-02-6448-7561. E- mail: sara.rancati@fastwebnet.it. The authors would like to thank the referees as well the members of the RESTATE project, and particularly Hanna Szemz and Ronald van Kempen, for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Word count: 10,211 (excluding references) 11,284 (including references)