CRIM 3654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Picket Fences, Environmental Design, Commodification
8 Apr 2015
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Crime prevention through environmental design (cpted: organization and control of space, emphasis on the built environment structured to reduce opportunities for crime by guiding conduct that occurs within those spaces. Jane jacobs (1961) book the death and life of great american cities. All urban planners had it wrong specifically on the emphasis of development and expansions for the sake of expansion. Argued that the key to cities is actually their people and in order to make a city great, you need to focus on the citizens and encourage interactions between people and create a vibrant urban life. If streets are used then the people who use the streets will essentially have each other"s back (a form of surveillance control). Those people will naturally keep the street safe. Good lighting is important, but darkness does not account for the grey areas: ray jeffrey, coins the term cpted , behavioural psychology, ecology, criminology . Oscar newman and his book defensible space (1972)
